Differential arthritogenicity of Staphylococcus aureusstrains isolated from biological samples

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Table 1 S. aureus strains: origin and infection doses

Strains	Source	Inoculum	Reference
ATCC 19095 SEC⁺	Leg abscess of a patient (Albert Merritt Billings Hospital, University of Chicago, 1933)	2.2x10⁷	[19]
N315 ST5 TSST-1⁺	Pharyngeal smear of a japanese patient, 1982	9.4x10⁷	[20]
S-70 TSST-1⁺	Secretion of a newborn patient (Botucatu, Brazil, 2007)	7.9x10⁸	[21]
ATCC 51650 TSST-1⁺	Wound of a patient with nonmenstrual toxic shock syndrome, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	7.8x10¹¹	[22]
ATCC 13565 SEA⁺	Food poisoning (Vancouver, Wash, 1940)	1.3x10⁷	[23]

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