A study of the enterotoxigenicity of coagulase-negative and coagulase-positive staphylococcal isolates from food poisoning outbreaks in Minas Gerais, Brazil

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 410-415

  Veras, Jamaira Fereira ^a   do Carmo, Luiz Simeão ^b   Tong, Lawrence C ^c   Shupp, Jeffrey W ^c   Cummings, Christiano ^c   dos Santos, Deise Aparecida ^b   Cerqueira, Mônica Maria Oliveira Pinho ^a   Cantini, Alvaro ^a   Nicoli, Jacques Robert ^a   Jett, Marti ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FUNDAÇÃO EZEQUIEL DIAS   (Brazil)

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulase negative; Food poisoning; PCR; Staphylococcal enterotoxin

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE; ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; COA GENE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COAGULASE POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; EPIDEMIC; FEMA GENE; FOOD POISONING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEA GENE; SEB GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRAZIL; COAGULASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL FOOD POISONING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 44649097738     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2007.09.018     Document Type: Article

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