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. 1994 Jun;112(3):501–511. doi: 10.1017/s0950268800051207

Clonal study of enterotoxin-B producing strains of Staphylococcus aureus.

F Renaud 1, N Bornstein 1, H Meugnier 1, F Forey 1, M Bes 1, J Fleurette 1
PMCID: PMC2271508  PMID: 8005216

Abstract

Sixty-nine Staphylococcus aureus strains, 39 of which produced staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB+) and 14 of which were associated with toxic shock (TS+), were studied using the following markers: serotyping, phage typing, antibiotyping, ribotyping, zymotyping and pulsed-field electrophoresis typing. Analysis of the results showed that the enterotoxin B producing strains were derived from at least three clones: the first two consisted of methicillin-susceptible strains, while the third included the methicillin-resistant (MRSA) strains. TS+ strains of nongenital origin appeared to be distributed between the three clones, with no specific characters.

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