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: Received: 9 January 2024 / Approved: 10 January 2024 / Online: 10 January 2024 (11:07:27 CET)
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Rodríguez A., F.; Salinas D., C.; Franco A., S.; Guillén F., A.R. Enterotoxins of EGC Cluster Prevalence in Staphylococcus aureus Collected from Clinical Samples of Paraguayan Children. Preprints2024, 2024010820. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0820.v1
Rodríguez A., F.; Salinas D., C.; Franco A., S.; Guillén F., A.R. Enterotoxins of EGC Cluster Prevalence in Staphylococcus aureus Collected from Clinical Samples of Paraguayan Children. Preprints 2024, 2024010820. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0820.v1
Rodríguez A., F.; Salinas D., C.; Franco A., S.; Guillén F., A.R. Enterotoxins of EGC Cluster Prevalence in Staphylococcus aureus Collected from Clinical Samples of Paraguayan Children. Preprints2024, 2024010820. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0820.v1
APA Style
Rodríguez A., F., Salinas D., C., Franco A., S., & Guillén F., A.R. (2024). Enterotoxins of EGC Cluster Prevalence in Staphylococcus aureus Collected from Clinical Samples of Paraguayan Children. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0820.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Rodríguez A., F., Sergio Franco A. and And Rosa Guillén F.. 2024 "Enterotoxins of EGC Cluster Prevalence in Staphylococcus aureus Collected from Clinical Samples of Paraguayan Children" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0820.v1
Abstract
The ability of S. aureus to infect humans and cause a wide range of infections so efficiently is a consequence of the many variant virulence factors that it can produce. Superantigens (SAgs) make up a group of them and include staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE). The main objective of this study was to detect enterotoxin gene cluster (EGC) in S. aureus isolates that caused infections in Paraguayan children in the year 2017, through an observational and cross-sectional study. The detection of the EGC including the seg, sei, sem, sen, seo, and seu genes, was carried out by end-point PCR. 181 S. aureus isolates were collected, most of them caused skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI, n=140, 77%) and came from children under 6 years 50% (n=90). At least one SE gene was detected in 96% (174/181) of isolates and 24% (44/181) carried the entire EGC. An association between methicillin resistance and seg, sei, seo, and seu gene carriage (p ≤0.05) was observed. A high prevalence of EGC was detected in S. aureus isolates collected from infected children attending the main health care centers in Paraguay, its importance is due to the potential of these toxins to aggravate staphylococcal infections.
Keywords
Staphylococcus aureus; enterotoxin gene cluster (EGC); children
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology
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