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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-8-13
pubmed:abstractText
Milk and dairy products are frequently contaminated with enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus, which is often involved in staphylococcal food poisoning. The distribution of genes encoding staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) in S. aureus isolated from bovine, goat, sheep and buffalo milk and dairy products was verified by the presence of the corresponding SE production. A total of 112 strains of S. aureus were tested for SE production by immuno-enzymatic (SEA-SEE) and reversed passive latex agglutination (SEA-SED) methods, while multiplex-PCR was applied for SE genes (sea, sec, sed, seg, seh, sei, sej and sel). Of the total strains studied, 67% were detected to have some SE genes (se), but only 52% produced a detectable amount of the classic antigenic SE types. The bovine isolates frequently had enterotoxin SEA, SED and sej, while SEC and sel predominated in the goat and sheep strains. The results demonstrated (i) marked enterotoxigenic S. aureus strain variations, in accordance with strain origin and (ii) the two methods resulted in different information but concurred on the risk of foodstuff infection by S. aureus.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0378-1135
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
124
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
66-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-12-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Detection of classical enterotoxins and identification of enterotoxin genes in Staphylococcus aureus from milk and dairy products.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Italian National Research Council, Celoria 2, Milan, Italy. stefano.morandi@ispa.cnr.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article