Genetic Determinants of Methicillin Resistance and Virulence among Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Recovered from Clinical and Surveillance Cultures in a Brazilian Teaching Hospital

Table 1

List of virulence factors assessed in the study, alongside with the genes tested and the methods references.

Virulence factors	Genes	Reference
	sea	Johnson et al. [3]
Enterotoxins	seb
	sec-1
Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome toxin 1	tst
Panton-Valentine leukocidin	LukPV	Lina et al. [4]
Biofilm production	icaA	Arciola et al. [5]
	icaD
Exfoliative toxins	eta	Johnson et al. [3]
	etb
	etd
Hemolysins	hla	Jarraud et al. [6]
	hld