Assay of Staphylococcal -Haemolysin with Fish Erythrocytes
- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 11 (3), 303-313
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-11-3-303
Abstract
Suspensions of erythrocytes from certain marine fish (cod, saithe, haddock and mackerel) were 4-16 times more sensitive than human or horse erythrocytes to staphylococcal .delta.-hemolysin. Cod erythrocytes were lysed rapidly by .delta.-hemolysin and the titers of hemolysin were independent of the temperatures at which the tests were incubated, over the range 0-37.degree. C. Fish erythrocytes were not lysed by purified .alpha.- and .beta.-hemolysins and no synergistic action was found between .beta.- and .delta.-hemolysins. In blood agar-overlay plates, the zones of lysis that developed in cod blood agar were larger and clearer than those that developed in human or horse blood agar.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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