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Genotyping of converting bacteriophages isolated from clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains produced the exfoliative toxin A

Authors

BOTKA Tibor RŮŽIČKOVÁ Vladislava HOLOCHOVÁ Pavla PETRÁŠ Petr MACHOVÁ Ivana

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference 26. Kongres Československé společnosti mikrobiologické
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

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Field Genetics and molecular biology
Keywords bacteriophage; Staphylococcus aureus; exfoliative toxin A
Description Exfoliative toxin A (ETA) producing strains of S. aureus cause serious epidermolytic diseases that affect mostly newborns and young children. The gene encoding ETA is carried by prophage integrated in bacterial chromosome. Eta gene can be transferred to different bacterial strain by horizontal gene transfer. The objective of this work was to characterize genome of the ETA phages from Siphoviridae family, which are responsible for mass epidermolytic infections in 2 maternity hospitals.
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