Frequency of staphylococcal lysozyme production tested by plate method.
Lysozyme production is a frequent property of staphylococcal strains isolated from various sources; all 503 tested strains of Staphylococcus aureus and 13 out of 35 strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis produced an enzyme lysing Micrococcus lysodeikticus as tested by a modified plate method. Lysozyme production by staphylococci is more frequent than the production of free coagulase, clumping factor, staphylokinase, Tween 80 lipase, and HgCl(2) resistance.
D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D001433:Bacteriolysis; D003030:Coagulase / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008837:Micrococcus; D009113:Muramidase / Q000032:analysis* / Q000096:biosynthesis; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism
D003030:Coagulase; D009113:Muramidase