Identification of theStaphylococcus aureus etdPathogenicity Island Which Encodes a Novel Exfoliative Toxin, ETD, and EDIN-B

Yamaguchi, Takayuki; Nishifuji, Koji; Sasaki, Megumi; Fudaba, Yasuyuki; Aepfelbacher, Martin; Takata, Takashi; Ohara, Masaru; Komatsuzawa, Hitoshi; Amagai, Masayuki; Sugai, Motoyuki

doi:10.1128/iai.70.10.5835-5845.2002

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Identification of theStaphylococcus aureus etdPathogenicity Island Which Encodes a Novel Exfoliative Toxin, ETD, and EDIN-B

Published in Infection and Immunity • Sep 12, 2002

Authors:

Takayuki Yamaguchi

Koji Nishifuji

Megumi Sasaki

Abstract

We identified a novel pathogenicity island in Staphylococcus aureus which contains open reading frames (ORFs) similar to the exfoliative toxin (ET) gene, glutamyl endopeptidase gene, and edin-B gene in tandem and the phage resistance gene, flanked by hsdM, hsdS (restriction and modification system),...

Subject

Biology

Molecular biology

Staphylococcus aureus

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