BIOCHEMICAL DIFFERENTIATION AMONG S. aureus, S. Intermedius AND S. hyicus ISOLATED FROM BOVINES WITH SUBCLINICAL MASTITIS

2005 
Staphylococcus aureus e, entre as especies de estafilococos, a mais relacionada a infeccoes em animais e humanos, bem como a doencas de origem alimentar. Entretanto, S. intermedius e S. hyicus, duas especies com caracteristicas morfologicas muito similares a S. aureus, tambem podem causar doencas, bem como produzir enterotoxinas em alimentos, tornando importante a diferenciacao entre essas tres especies de estafilococos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a eficiencia de oito tecnicas bioquimicas com relacao a sua capacidade para distinguir entre S. aureus, S. intermedius e S. hyicus. Para isso, 65 cepas, previamente identificadas em nivel de especie atraves de tecnicas moleculares, foram submetidas aos testes de producao de pigmentos carotenoides, atividade hemolitica em agar sangue, producao de b- galactosidase, producao de acetoina, atividade lipolitica em polisorbato, fermentacao aerobica da maltose, fermentacao anaerobica do manitol e crescimento em agar Baird-Paker e agar P suplementados com acriflavina. Verificou-se que os testes de sensibilidade a acriflavina e de producao de b- galactosidase apresentaram bom poder discriminatorio, demonstrando serem os melhores testes bioquimicos para a diferenciacao entre essas tres especies de estafilococos. Abstract Among staphylococcus species, Staphylococcus aureus is the one mostly related to animal and human infections, as well as food diseases. However, S. intermedius and S. hyicus, two species with very similar morphological characteristics to S. aureus, can also cause diseases as well as produce enterotoxins in food, what makes important the differentiation of these three species. The aim of this work was to study the efficiency of eight biochemical techniques regarding their capacity to distinguish among S. aureus, S. intermedius and S. hyicus. For that purpose, sixty five strains, previously identified at species level through molecular techniques, were submitted to the tests of carotenoid pigments production, hemolytic activity in blood agar, b- galactosidase production, acetoin production, lipolytic activity in polysorbate, maltose aerobic fermentation, manitol anaerobic fermentation and growth in Baird-Parker and P agar supplemented with acriflavine. It was verified that tests of sensitivity to acriflavine and b-galactosidase production display good distinguishing properties, constituting as a whole, the best biochemical tests for the identification of these three staphylococcus species.
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