Ecology of Staphylococcus aureus: characterization of strains from chicken.
The majority of S. aureus strains isolated from beak-swabs and pathological processes in chicken shows coagulation of human plasma (not of bovine plasma), crystal violet-type A, hemolysine-type A, formation of fibrinolysin, not formation of DNase and reactions with the experimental phage A1591. Because of the absence of DNase-formation and the reaction-specificity for phage A1591 we propose to designate these strains as host-specific variety gallinae of S. aureus. The strains from chicken are compared with strains of human, bovine, and ovine origin. An ecological study in a chicken farm has shown that S. aureus strains from chicken are not found in man and vice versa.
D000818:Animals; D001530:Belgium; D001604:Berlin; D002031:Bulgaria; D002645:Chickens / Q000382:microbiology*; D004463:Ecology; D005859:Germany, East; D006814:Hungary; D009426:Netherlands; D012756:Sheep; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology*