title: Production of toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) associated with Staphylococcus aureus from a pyogenic skin infection.
abstract: Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 (TSST-1) producing Staphylococcus aureus associated with TSS was isolated from an abscess on buttock, from a two-year-old male child suffering from diarrhoea, high fever and shock. The isolate was subclassified into S. aureus var. hominis of CV type-D, and was lysed by phage 75 of Group-III. It was multidrug resistant, exhibited double ring (DR) CVRT pattern and also produced enterotoxin-C (SE-C). Out of 217 S. aureus strains from pyodermas, clinical sources, food poisonings and dairy foods, 139 (64.1%) produced enterotoxin. SE-C as single (33.8%) or in combinations (25.2%) was common enterotoxin. None of these strains produced TSST-1.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Preventive Medicine, Public Health Laboratories, and Food (Health) Authority, A. P. Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Naidu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rathna
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Naidu
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rajyalakshmi
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000382:microbiology; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018089:Superantigens
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004768:Enterotoxins; D018089:Superantigens; C030107:enterotoxin F, Staphylococcal