Evaluation of Selected Toxigenic Genes and Antimicrobial Agent Susceptibility in Staphylococcus Spp Isolated from Foods Purchased from North Dakota Grocery Stores

Evaluation of Selected Toxigenic Genes and Antimicrobial Agent Susceptibility in Staphylococcus Spp Isolated from Foods Purchased from North Dakota Grocery Stores

The present study was done to assess the incidence of five superantigenic toxin genes and toxin expression; and the antimicrobial susceptibility in food-derived coagulase-negative-Staphyloccus (CNS). Sixty-two (16.1%) Staphylococcus isolates from 385 food samples were tested by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for five superantigenic toxin genes including four classical enterotoxins (sea, seb, sec, sed, and see), and toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (tsst-1).