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For example, the staphylococcal superantigens induce prolonged inflammatory responses associated with arthritis and destruction of bone connective tissue [ 55 ] .
In the first case, an 11-year-old male in Osceola Mills, PA with an unremarkable medical history died of staphylococcal septicaemia.
S. aureus -mediated apoptosis has been reported in epithelial cells [ 16 29 30 ] , keratinocytes [ 31 ] , endothelial cells [ 32 33 ] , and osteoblasts [ 34 ] . The two global gene regulatory loci agr and sar have been demonstrated to play a role in the induction of apoptosis in epithelial cells by S. aureus [ 33 ] . Mutants in the agr or sar loci are internalized, but do not induce apoptosis [ 33 ] . Another study demonstrated induction of apoptosis in endothelial cells by staphylococcal alpha toxin [ 32 ] .
The two major components of the staphylococcal cell wall, peptidoglycan and lipoteichoic acid have been reported to produce inflammation [ 51 52 ] and specifically to induce arthritis [ 53 ] . Bacterial peptidoglycan is also known to stimulate the bone-resorbing activity of macrophages [ 54 ] . Furthermore, staphylococci produce an array of secreted products capable of inducing or sustaining inflammation.
A lack of any documented risk of staphylococcal infections among workers processing and handling wastewater and sewage sludges may reflect the fact that workers are more immunocompetent than the general population, or that adequate epidemiological studies have not been done.