Food Poisoning and Staphylococcus aureus Enterotoxins

Toxins

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1751-1773

  Argudín, María Ángeles ^a   Mendoza, María Carmen ^a   Rodicio, María Rosario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCATION; GENOMIC ISLAND; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PLASMID; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ENTEROTOXINS; HUMANS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL FOOD POISONING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERANTIGENS;

PRIMATES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79952075864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins2071751     Document Type: Review

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