title: [Evaluation of the lysozyme and DNAase activity for the identification of pathogenic staphylococci].
abstract: The sensitivity of two tests recently proposed for the classification of pathogen staphylococci were evaluated: --production of DNA-ase with the modified method of Lachica et al.; --production of lisozyme. The two above tests were studied with other six tests on 1,000 strains of staphylococci showing a very high specificity. The Authors propose that the DNA-ase production and the lisozyme production, also for their very simple execution, should become routine tests to identify the strains of pathogenic staphylococci.
mesh_terms: D003851:Deoxyribonucleases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009113:Muramidase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000378:metabolism*; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity
chemical_list: D003851:Deoxyribonucleases; D009113:Muramidase
vernacular_title: Valutazione dell'attivíta' lisozimica e DNA-asica per l'identificazione degli stafilococchi patogeni