| food poisoning outbreak in tokyo, japan caused by staphylococcus argenteus. | staphylococcus argenteus is a novel species subdivided from staphylococcus aureus. whether this species can cause food poisoning outbreaks is unknown. this study aimed to investigate the enterotoxigenic activities of two food poisoning isolates suspected to be s. argenteus (tokyo13064 and tokyo13069). the results for phylogenic trees, constructed via whole genome sequencing, demonstrated that both isolates were more similar to a type strain of s. argenteus (mshr1132) than any s. aureus strain. m ... | 2017 | 28961520 |