ABSTRACT
In this study, the bacteriological examination of 130 street marketing milk samples and 251 milk product samples revealed that 47 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus were recovered from 130 milk samples with a percentage of 36% and 31 isolates of S.aureus were recovered from 251 milk product samples with a percentage of 12.4%. The pathogenic activity of the isolated S.aureus from milk and milk products were studied including Heamolytic activity, DNase activity and coagulase activity. The results proved that 70 isolates out of 78 tested isolates were Heamolytic and 72 isolates have DNase activity and 60 isolates have coagulase activity. By using latex slide agglutination Test was used for detection of Protein A in isolated S.aureus from milk samples. The results proved that 46 out of 47 isolates contained protein A. Concerning the ice cream samples 11 out of 13 tested isolates contained protein A. and 16 out of 18 tested isolates from Kariesh cheese contained protein A. The results showed that, out of 78 tested isolates 20 isolates were proved to be enterotoxin A producer, 2 isolates were enterotoxin B producer and 5 isolates were enterotoxin C producer by using ELISA