Species distribution of staphylococci from small wild mammals.
A total of 197 isolates of Staphylococcus from small wild animals (insectivores and rodents) were identified by partial sequencing of the rpoB and dnaJ genes. Among the identified isolates the predominant species was S. succinus (28%), followed by S. xylosus (20.8%) and S. stepanovicii (18.3%). The other 14 Staphylococcus species were occasionally isolated. PCR-RFLP of the rpoB gene digested by Hpy8I was a fast and simple method to distinguish the two subspecies of S. succinus. More than 90% of the 55 S. succinus strains isolated belonged to S. succinus subsp. casei and only 9% to S. succinus subsp. succinus. Moreover, the present study describes the first ever isolation of S. fleurettii from healthy animals.
Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Bialystok, Swierkowa 20 B, 15-950 Bialystok, Poland. thausch@uwb.edu.pl
Tomasz
T
Hauschild
Piotr
P
Sliżewski
Paweł
P
Masiewicz
D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000382:microbiology*; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D007312:Eulipotyphla / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012377:Rodentia / Q000382:microbiology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000662:veterinary; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification
D001426:Bacterial Proteins