Identification of genes encoding two-component lantibiotic production in Staphylococcus aureus C55 and other phage group II S. aureus strains and demonstration of an association with the exfoliative toxin B gene

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 4268-4271

  Navaratna, Maduwe A D B ^a   Sahl, Hans Georg ^b   Tagg, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; EXFOLIATIN; LANTIBIOTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032768670     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.8.4268-4271.1999     Document Type: Article

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