Abstract
The bacterium Staphylococcus sciuri (recently reclassified as Mammaliicoccus sciuri) is the etiological agent of exudative epidermitis in pigs, mainly due to the activity of the Exfoliative Toxin C (ExhC). This toxin also causes epidermal exfoliation in newborn rats, necrosis in newborn hamster renal fibroblasts (BHK-21 cells), and inhibition of phagocytosis by macrophages (RAW 264.7) in …