Enterotoxiguinity and characterization of staphylococci isolated from human sources

ABSTRACT

A total of 137 strains isolated from human sources obtained from clinical and subclinical cases were examined for their physiological and biochemical characterization in relation to their enterotoxigenicity. Significant correlation between enterotoxin production and coagulase, thermonuclease, protein A, mannitol fermentation and hemolysin formation was observed. On the other hand, nonsignificant correlation with the other examined characterization was observed. About 31% of the studied strains produced enterotoxins A, B, C, D where enterotoxin A was the most prevalent. Few strains [1.5%] produced more than one enterotoxin