Elastolytic activity among staphylococci
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 24 (6) , 945-946
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.24.6.945-946.1986
Abstract
A total of 161 isolates of the genus Staphylococcus were evaluated for the ability to produce elastase. Elastase activity was detected only in S. epidermidis strains (sensu stricto), being absent in S. aureus isolates and other coagulase-negative staphylococci tested. The elastase elaborated by S. epidermidis isolates appeared to be an inducible enzyme whose synthesis was medium dependent.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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