Research Article
Diversity of Virulence Factors Associated with West Australian Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus Isolates of Human Origin
Table 3
Distribution of different toxins detected by genotyping and/or serotyping.
| | Encoding gene | Number of positive isolates (%) |
| | Staph enterotoxin A | 8 (25.8%) | | Staph enterotoxin B | 6 (19.35%) | | Staph enterotoxin C | 3 (9.68%) | | Staph enterotoxin D | 0 (0%) | | Staph enterotoxin E | 0 (0%) | | Staph enterotoxin G | 19 (61.29%) | | Staph enterotoxin H | 4 (12.9%) | | Staph enterotoxin I | 9 (29.03%) | | Staph enterotoxin J | 0 (0%) | | TSST-1 | 8 (25.8%) | | PVL | 0 (0%) | | Alpha toxin | 30 (96.77%) | | Beta toxin | 13 (49.93%) | | Exfoliative toxin A | 1 (3.23%) | | Exfoliative toxin B | 1 (3.23%) |
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