Milk and milk products have been utilized by humans for many thousands of years. With the
advent of metagenomic studies, our knowledge on the microbiota of milk and milk products …

Staphylococcus aureus is a commensal bacterium known to colonize the skin, nares, and
gastrointestinal tract of humans. Asymptomatic workers can contaminate food via manual …

Staphylococcus aureus causes a foodborne intoxication due to the production of
enterotoxins and shows antimicrobial resistance, as in the case of methicillin-resistant …

In order to analyze and clarify the thermal stability of food poisoning Staphylococcus aureus
(S. aureus) enterotoxin-like X (SElX) and the biological characteristics of digestive enzymes …

For decades now, DNA fingerprinting by means of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE)
continues to be the most widely used to separate large DNA molecules and distinguish …

Currently, only 5 (SEA to SEE) out of 27 known staphylococcal enterotoxins can be analyzed
using commercially available kits. Six genes (seg, sei, sem, sen, seo, and seu), encoding …

Considering the growing consumption of artisanal foods worldwide, we aimed to evaluate
the microbial safety of Serro artisanal cheese (SAC), produced in Minas Gerais State, Brazil …

In this study, 53 Staphylococcus (S.) aureus strains were typed by 16S–23S rDNA intergenic
spacer region (ISR) typing and staphylococcal enterotoxin gene (SEg) typing for all the …

Staphylococcus aureus and staphylococcal enterotoxins are a serious public health concern
associated with hospital and community-acquired illnesses. Dairy animals frequently shed …

Staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP) is one of the most common foodborne diseases
worldwide, resulting from the ingestion of staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs), primarily SE …