Prevalence and characterization of leukotoxin-producing Staphylococcus intermedius in Isolates from dogs and pigeons.
Staphylococcus intermedius isolates from dogs (n = 44) and pigeons (n = 62) were categorized into 12 types by intergenic ribosomal DNA spacer polymorphism analysis. All isolates from pigeons were lukS positive and all isolates from dogs were lukS and lukF positive by dot blot analysis. The mean leukotoxicity titer for dog isolates was at least 129-fold higher than that for pigeon isolates.
Futagawa-Saito
Keiko
K
Center for Medical Sciences, School of health Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Inashiki, Ibaraki, Japan. saitohk@azabu-u.ac.jp
Sugiyama
Tsukasa
T
Karube
Sayaka
S
Sakurai
Naomi
N
Ba-Thein
William
W
Fukuyasu
Tsuguaki
T
D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques / Q000662:veterinary; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D010856:Columbidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D004285:Dogs / Q000382:microbiology*; D005098:Exotoxins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D007956:Leukocidins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015995:Prevalence; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D005098:Exotoxins; D007956:Leukocidins; C108483:leukocidin S-component protein, Staphylococcus; C018579:leukotoxin; C074300:LukF protein, Staphylococcus aureus