PMID- 3314262
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19871216
LR  - 20191029
IS  - 0176-6724 (Print)
IS  - 0176-6724 (Linking)
VI  - 265
IP  - 3-4
DP  - 1987 Jul
TI  - Staphylococcus aureus producing toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) in clinical 
      specimens and vaginal swabs in Mannheim, West Germany.
PG  - 323-9
AB  - 624 Staphylococcus aureus strains from our clinical laboratory were screened for 
      toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (= TSST-1) production and 16.7% of the strains were 
      found to be positive. TSST-1-positive strains were isolated from material which 
      originated from males and females with the same frequency. The strains were found 
      in swabs from the respiratory tract, the conjunctiva, in sputum and wounds. 
      TSST-1-positive strains were more resistant to arsenate and cadmium ions than 
      non-producers; their sensitivity to the antibiotics (when tested), was no 
      different. The toxin-producing strains were lysed above all by the bacteriophages 
      29, 52, 80, 55, 75 and 83A. We isolated 19 S. aureus strains from 321 vaginal 
      swabs: one of these strains was TSST-1-positive. Most of the strains were found 
      in swabs from women using tampons. It has been concluded that the infection with 
      TSST-1 positive S. aureus is either of subclinical course or that in most of the 
      cases, the syndrome is of a less dramatic course than usually described. Quite 
      certainly the syndrome is underdiagnosed in Germany.
FAU - Dickgiesser, N
AU  - Dickgiesser N
AD  - Institut fur Hygiene und Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Fakultat fur Klinische 
      Medizin Mannheim der Universitat Heidelberg.
FAU - Brombacher, A
AU  - Brombacher A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Germany
TA  - Zentralbl Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg A
JT  - Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Mikrobiologie, und Hygiene. Series A, Medical 
      microbiology, infectious diseases, virology, parasitology
JID - 8403032
RN  - 0 (Bacterial Toxins)
RN  - 0 (Enterotoxins)
RN  - 0 (Superantigens)
RN  - 0 (enterotoxin F, Staphylococcal)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Bacterial Toxins
MH  - Bacteriological Techniques
MH  - Enterotoxins/*metabolism
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Shock, Septic/*microbiology
MH  - Staphylococcal Infections/*microbiology
MH  - Staphylococcus aureus/isolation & purification/metabolism
MH  - *Superantigens
MH  - Vagina/*microbiology
MH  - Vaginal Smears
EDAT- 1987/07/01 00:00
MHDA- 1987/07/01 00:01
CRDT- 1987/07/01 00:00
PHST- 1987/07/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1987/07/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1987/07/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1016/s0176-6724(87)80250-x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Zentralbl Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg A. 1987 Jul;265(3-4):323-9. doi: 
      10.1016/s0176-6724(87)80250-x.