▪ Abstract Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is an acute onset illness characterized by fever, rash
formation, and hypotension that can lead to multiple organ failure and lethal shock, as well …

A single square centimetre of the human skin can contain up to one billion microorganisms.
These diverse communities of bacteria, fungi, mites and viruses can provide protection …

Desde su descubrimiento por el médico Alexander Ogston en 1880, Staphylococcus aureus
es considerado un patógeno con gran potencial para causar múltiples infecciones en el …

Rapid advances in molecular biological techniques have made it possible to study disease
pathogenesis at a genomic level. T cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangement is an important …

Superantigens (SAgs) represent a diverse family of bacterial toxins that induce Vβ-specific T
cell proliferation associated with an array of important diseases in humans and animals …

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a pathobiont of humans as well as a multitude of
animal species. The high prevalence of multi-resistant and more virulent strains of S. aureus …

Background Staphylococcus aureus is implicated in many opportunistic bacterial infections
around the world. Rising antibiotic resistance and few alternative methods of treatment are …

Previous work in our laboratory revealed that mice parenterally vaccinated with
recombinantly attenuated staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) or toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 …

Nanowire field effect transistors (nano-FET) were lithographically fabricated using 50 nm
doped polysilicon nanowires attached to two small gold terminals separated from each other …

Two pyrogenic mitogens, SePE-H and SePE-I, were characterized in Streptococcus equi,
the cause of equine strangles. SePE-H and SePE-I have molecular masses of 27.5 and 29.5 …