| characteristics and epidemiologic genotyping of staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine mastitic milk in hokkaido, japan. | two hundred thirty one staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine mastitic milk were discriminated into 60 patterns and 16 lineages by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge). the tested isolates were also investigated using coagulase and capsule serotyping and pcr for possession of genes that encode staphylococcal enterotoxins (sea to sei), enterotoxin-like toxins (selj to selr), and toxic shock syndrome toxin (tst). one hundred seventy three of the isolates (74.9%) possessed one or more toxin ... | 2006 | 16520540 |