Detection and identification of staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins in some milk products and their handlers

ABSTRACT

Background: Staphylococus aureus may contain one or more genes that encode staphylococcal enterotoxins [SE] that cause food poisoning. The previously known toxins were the five major classical types; however, with the extensive analysis of the S. aureus genome, new genes encoding enterotoxin-like superantigens have been identified. Milk and dairy products are frequently contaminated with enterotoxigenic S. aureus, which is often involved in staphylococcal food poisoning; these contaminations are either from animal or human sources