Significance of Protein a Production by Staphylococci

Overview

Journal Infect Immun

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 1970 Nov 1

PMID 16557894

Citations 71

Authors

A Forsgren

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Abstract

Of 700 coagulase-positive staphylococcal strains isolated from humans, 692 (98.9%) produced protein A. Of 100 coagulase-negative strains, 2 were protein A-positive.

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