Molecular epidemiology and identification of a Staphylococcus aureus clone causing food poisoning outbreaks in Japan.
Molecular characterization of isolates from staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP) outbreaks in Japan showed that the dominant lineage causing SFP outbreaks is clonal complex 81 (CC81), a single-locus variant of sequence type 1, coagulase type VII, positive for sea and/or seb, and positive for seh. Among various CC lineages producing staphylococcal enterotoxin A, CC81 showed the highest toxin productivity.
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu City, Gifu, Japan.
Yusuke
Y
Sato'o
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu City, Gifu, Japan.
Katsuhiko
K
Omoe
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan.
Ikunori
I
Naito
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan.
Hisaya K
HK
Ono
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan.
Akio
A
Nakane
Department of Bacteriology, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima, Japan hudl@vmas.kitasato-u.ac.jp sugai@hiroshima-u.ac.jp.
Motoyuki
M
Sugai
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu City, Gifu, Japan.
Norio
N
Yamagishi
Department of Zoonoses, Kitasato University School of Veterinary Medicine, Towada, Aomori, Japan hudl@vmas.kitasato-u.ac.jp sugai@hiroshima-u.ac.jp.
Dong-Liang
DL
Hu
D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000378:metabolism; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification
D004768:Enterotoxins; C026066:enterotoxin A, Staphylococcal