Using the tannase gene to rapidly and simply identify Staphylococcus lugdunensis

Autor:	Yutaka Nasu, Fuminori Moriyasu, Norihisa Noguchi, Kenta Utsumi, Koji Narui, Keiko Goto, Tokihiro Ro, Mari Ko, Masanori Sasatsu, Kenji Takazawa
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Microbiology (medical) Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases Micrococcaceae Staphylococcus Staphylococcus lugdunensis medicine.disease_cause Polymerase Chain Reaction Tannase Microbiology law.invention Bacterial Proteins Species Specificity law medicine Humans Gene Polymerase chain reaction Bacteriological Techniques biology General Medicine Staphylococcal Infections biology.organism_classification Infectious Diseases Biochemistry Staphylococcus aureus Bacteria
Zdroj:	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 66:120-123
ISSN:	0732-8893
Popis:	The coagulase-negative Staphylococcus lugdunensis, a bacterium similar to Staphylococcus aureus, produces tannase that degrades tannin. We developed a polymerase chain reaction-based method to rapidly and simply identify this species by detecting the tanA gene for S. lugdunensis tannase.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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