Growth of Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin I-Producing, TryptophanRequiring Strains of Staphylococcus aureus Associated with the Presence of Escherichia coli
In: Clinical Infectious Diseases, Jg. 11 (1989), S. S101- (3S.)
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More than 80 percent of TSST-1-positive strains of Staphylococcus aureus are tryptophan auxotrophs (Trp-). Chromosomal mapping has located the genetic determinant for TSST-1 (tst) in the trp operon for strain S411 (Trp-) and near the tyrB site for strain FRI1169 (Trp*). Auxonographic screening on tryptophan-free medium of 28 strains of S. aureus (TSST-1-positive and -negative, Trp+ and Trp-) against Escherichia coli (strains 6094, 7603, and 7877) and other strains of Enterobacteriaceae showed that Trp- S. aureus strains responded only to E. coli and tryptophan. Neither E. coli nor tryptophan inhibited TSST-1 production. Cocultivation of strain FRI1169 or S411 with E. coli strain 7877 showed that TSST-1 production by FRI1169 was not enhanced. In contrast, TSST-1 production by S411 was equal to that of S. aureus alone (less than 640 ng/mL) or enhanced (greater than 12,000 ng/mL) if the input log10 cfu of S. aureus was of equal or greater ratio to input E. coli and if the recovered S. aureus was greater than log10 5 cfu. These results suggest that nutritionally deficient toxicogenic strains of S. aureus may overcome growth limitation by coexisting in dynamic balance with strains of E. coli.
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Growth of Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin I-Producing, TryptophanRequiring Strains of Staphylococcus aureus Associated with the Presence of Escherichia coli
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Chu, May C. ; James, John F. ; Melish, Marian E. |
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Zeitschrift: | Clinical Infectious Diseases, Jg. 11 (1989), S. S101- (3S.) |
Veröffentlichung: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 1989 |
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ISSN: | 1537-6591 (print) ; 1058-4838 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1093/clinids/11.supplement_1.s101 |
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