The Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage phi11 endolysin has two peptidoglycan hydrolase domains (endopeptidase and amidase) and an SH3b cell wall-binding domain. In turbidity reduction assays, the purified protein can lyse untreated staphylococcal mastitis pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci (Staphylococcus chronogenes, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcu...

abstract        background and objective: staphylococcus aureus is the most common and important infectious agent. this bacterium can enter the bloodstream and cause some complications in the intensive care unit (icu).this organism can frequently be found in the nose and transmitted by the carriers. this study aimed to determine the efficiency of eradicating s. aureus from the nose of icu perso...

The risks of contracting staphylococci food poisoning by the consumption of improperly manufactured salami and the possibility of this food being reservoirs for antibiotic resistance were evaluated. Nineteen coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) strains were found in commercial and artisanal salami. The species in commercial salami were S. saprophyticus, S. sciuri, S. xylosus, and S. carnosus....

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The present review describes the literature about the prevention of Staphylococcus aureus infections in surgery, published from August 2006 to January 2008, and puts it into perspective. RECENT FINDINGS To prevent Staphylococcus aureus infections after surgical procedures, three methods were described, that is, isolation precautions after methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...

Two shuttle vectors containing the gene for protein A (spa) from Staphylococcus aureus have been constructed to study expression of the gene in various strains of S. aureus and in the coagulase-negative species Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus capitis, and Staphylococcus xylosus. One plasmid, pSPA15, contains the complete structural gene for protein A, which binds to the cell wall in ...

conclusions we report a high methicillin-resistant s. aureus rate in our hospital. additionally, t030 and t037 were the predominant spa-types among hospital-associated s. aureus. our findings emphasize the need for continuous surveillance to prevent the dissemination of multidrug resistance among different s. aureus protein a types in iran. background the incidence of nosocomial staphylococcus ...

The API Staph-Ident system was evaluated as a means for identifying the species of bovine strains of staphylococci routinely isolated from quarter-milk samples. The species identity of 314 of 581 (54%) isolates of staphylococci was correctly determined by this method. The API Staph-Ident system was more accurate in correctly identifying Staphylococcus aureus (93.9%) than in correctly identifyin...

We report the complete genome sequence of the methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) strain FDA209P (ATCC 6538P and NCTC 7447).