Table 2.

Prevalence of hemolysis, hemolysin, and toxin genes among food-derived coagulase-negative staphylococci

	S. carnosus			S. equorum			S. succinus	S. xylosus
Hemolysis
Horse blood						0	0			11.1
Sheep blood						2.4	0			16.7
Human blood		60.0	2.6	88.2				3.0
Hemolysin genes
hla		0	2.6	0	0	0			0
hlb		0	0	0	0	0			0
hld		0	2.6	23.5	0	0		0	3.6
SE_0613		0		0	3.2	0		0	0
SE_1760		0		0	3.2	0		0	0
Enterotoxin genes
sea	0	0	0	0		0		0	0
seb	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0
sec	0	0	0	0		0		1.5	0
sed	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0
see	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0
seg		0		5.9					0
seh0		0		0					0
sei		0		0					0
sej				5.9	0				0
selj					0				0
selr					0				0
set9					0				0
Exfoliative toxin genes
eta		0	0	0	0				0
etb		0		0	0				0
Toxic shock syndrome toxin gene
tst-1		0	0	0	0				0
Number of strains	11	5	39	17	31	126	14	194	28	18
References	Martin et al. (2006)	Marty et al. (2012)	Muller et al. (2016)	Marty et al. (2012)	Even et al. (2010)	Jeong et al. (2014a)	Jeong et al. (2016a)	Martin et al. (2006)	Even et al. (2010)	Jeong et al. (2016a)

Blank box indicates an assay was not performed

SE_0613 and SE_1760 are the hemolysin- and hemolysin III-encoding genes, respectively, from S. epidermidis ATCC 12228

hylIII, hemolysin III-encoding gene from Bacillus cereus