RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Allignet, Jeanine A1 Galdbart, Jacques-Olivier A1 Morvan, Anne A1 Dyke, Keith G. H. A1 Vaudaux, Pierre A1 Aubert, Sylvie A1 Desplaces, Nicole A1 Solh, NĂ©vine ElYR 1999 T1 Tracking adhesion factors in Staphylococcus caprae strains responsible for human bone infections following implantation of orthopaedic material JF Microbiology, VO 145 IS 8 SP 2033 OP 2042 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/13500872-145-8-2033 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1465-2080, AB Ten Staphylococcus caprae strains isolated from four patients and responsible for bone infections following implantation of orthopaedic material were compared to four S. caprae strains collected from milk samples of healthy goats. The following characteristics were investigated: SmaI patterns, hybridization patterns with pBA2 (ribotypes), slime production, adhesion to matrix proteins (fibrinogen, fibronectin, collagen) and the staphylococcal adhesion genes (fnbA, clfA, cna, atlE, ica, fbe). None of the characteristics enabled us to distinguish the human strains from the goat strains. Slime was occasionally produced by S. caprae strains but all of them carried nucleotide sequences hybridizing at low stringency with the following genes: atIE encoding a S. epidermidis autolysin binding vitronectin and responsible for the primary adhesion to polystyrene, ica operon involved in the biosynthesis of a S. epidermidis extracellular polysaccharide, and the part of cIfA encoding the serine-aspartate repeated region of a S. aureus cell-wall fibrinogen-binding protein., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/13500872-145-8-2033