Evaluation of coagulase-negative staphylococci for ability to produce toxic shock syndrome toxin 1. |
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| Authors: | B N Kreiswirth P M Schlievert R P Novick |
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| Affiliation: | Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, New York 10016. |
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| Abstract: | A large and diverse group of coagulase-negative staphylococci were assayed for the ability to produce toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) by immunological reactivity, and whole-cell DNAs from 33 of these strains were hybridized with a TSST-1-specific gene probe. None of the strains tested, including isolates that have been reported as TSST-1+, produced the exotoxin, and no DNA homology was found with the gene probe. |
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