Staphylococcal Epidermolysin A & B

Staphylococcal ETA/ETB detected by flow cytometry-assisted multiplex immunoassay

Published in Blood Weekly, May 19th, 2005

Staphylococcal epidermolysin A and B were detected by a flow cytometry-assisted multiplex immunoassay.

According to recently published research from France, "Two of the most common bacterial skin infections of young infants and children are bullous impetigo due to Staphylococcus aureus and its more acute form, staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome."

"Epidermolysin A (ETA), ETB and, possibly, ETD are responsible for these diseases, which may appear as epidemics in pediatric patients. We tested the reliability of a flow cytometry-assisted multiplex immunoassay (Bio-Plex system) for the detection of ETA and ETB.

"The Bio-Plex...

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