Characteristics of staphylococci isolated from man, poultry and some other animals

Adegoke, G. O.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.1986.tb03365.x

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“…Staphylococcus and Micrococcus spp. Colonies which had developed on mannitol salt agar and Staphylococcus 110 medium were identified according to the scheme described by Adegoke (5). Isolates which proved to be Gram-positive cocci, catalase (+), coagulase (+), mannitol fermentor and produced acid from glucose both aerobically and anaerobically were considered to be S .…”

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Microbial Contamination of Cosmetics and Personal Care Items in Egypt—shaving Creams and Shampoos

et al. 1989

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We examined a total of 192 samples, including eight different brands of shaving cream and eight brands of shampoo, for their total aerobic bacterial, coliforms and fungal counts. Shaving creams were more heavily contaminated with bacteria than shampoos. Viable bacterial were not recovered from 57% and 10% of shampoos and shaving creams, respectively. Only 3% of shaving creams were heavily contaminated with more than 10(4) c.f.u./g, while none of the shampoos contained such a high number of bacteria. With regard to the medium range contamination levels, 52% of shaving creams showed bacterial counts ranging from 10(2) to 10(3) c.f.u./g or ml, compared to 15% of shampoos which were contaminated to the same level. Fourteen per cent of shaving creams were contaminated with greater than 10(3)-10(4) c.f.u./g or ml, compared to 1% of the shampoos. No coliforms were recovered from either the shaving creams or the shampoos; however, Staphylococcus spp. were detected in six samples of both shampoos and shaving creams. Some of these Staphylococci, were aureus type. One isolate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was also detected in a sample of shampoo. The incidence of fungal contamination was much less than the bacterial contamination. No viable fungi were recovered from 88% and 76% of the shaving creams and shampoos, respectively. The majority of the remaining samples, for both products, were contaminated with less than 100 fungal cell/g or ml. The pH of all the tested samples was alkaline (pH 7.2-9), which is well known to inhibit fungal contamination.

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Microbial Contamination of Cosmetics and Personal Care Items in Egypt—shaving Creams and Shampoos

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“…The activities of both virulence factors was analysed by tube test with human and rabbit plasma and by decapsulation test with S. equi as described by Essers and Radebold (1980). Discussion S. sciuri is mostly recovered from skin and mucous membrane of animals and has long been considered as a non-pathogenic commensal bacterium (Adegoke, 1986). During the last decade of years, it has been associated with several cases of bovine mastitis (Lüthje and Schwarz, 2006;Nam et al, 2010;Frey et al, 2013), as well as from goats suffering from peste des petites ruminants (PPR) (Ugochukwu and Agwu, 1991), from cases of canine dermatitis (Hauschild and Wójcik, 2007;Hauschild et al, 2010), and from several outbreaks of fatal exudative epidermitis in piglets (Chen et al, 2007;Nemeghaire et al, 2014c).…”

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Isolation of <i>Staphylococcus sciuri</i> from horse skin infection

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Staphylococcus sciuri is known as an opportunistic pathogen colonizing domesticated animals and has also been associated with wound infections in humans. Particularly over the last decade, oxacillin (methicillin) resistant strains had been emerged, which now increase the medical relevance of this species. This report describes the identification of an oxacillin-resistant S. sciuri isolate from a wound infection of a horse. We determined the absence of coagulase and hyaluronidase activity and analysed the antibiotic resistance profile.

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“…This bacterium is widespread in nature and is associated with a variety of wild and domestic animals [1^4]. S. sciuri has been shown to be an invasive pathogen for animals causing wound infections and mastitis [3,5]. Although principally animal species, S. sciuri may colonize humans and its isolation from clinical samples such as skin, vagina, blood, urine, central venous catheters has been reported [4,6^8].…”

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Possible virulence factors of Staphylococcus sciuri

Stepanović

2001

FEMS Microbiology Letters

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Staphylococcus sciuri is an opportunistic pathogen of controversial clinical significance. The factors that contribute to colonization and/or infection caused by this bacterium have not been studied intensively so far. The present research was carried out in order to study the presence of potential virulence factors in 121 human and animal isolates of this bacterium. Isolates were examined for biofilm formation, hemagglutination, presence of clumping factor, production of spreading factors and exotoxins, cytotoxicity and capacity to stimulate nitric oxide production. The results showed that S. sciuri is highly capable of biofilm production, that it displays strong proteolytic and DNase activities, produces hemolysins and stimulates nitric oxide production by rat macrophages. Although the present study showed existence of a wide spectrum of possible virulence determinants of S. sciuri, their exact contribution to virulence of this bacterium in vivo remains to be determined. ß

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Characteristics of staphylococci isolated from man, poultry and some other animals

Cited by 20 publications

References 13 publications

Microbial Contamination of Cosmetics and Personal Care Items in Egypt—shaving Creams and Shampoos

Microbial Contamination of Cosmetics and Personal Care Items in Egypt—shaving Creams and Shampoos

Isolation of <i>Staphylococcus sciuri</i> from horse skin infection

Possible virulence factors of Staphylococcus sciuri

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