Staphylococci: colonies morphological caracteristics, coagulase and EEA production colected from cooled raw milk samples

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Elsa Helena Walter de
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Beloti, Vanerli, Oliveira, Tereza Cristina R. M. de, Moraes, Luciane B. de, Tamanini, Ronaldo, Silva, Wladimir P.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Semina. Ciências Agrárias (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/2522
• topic: Milk; Staphylococci; Toxic infection; Coagulase.; Leite; Estafilococos; Toxinfecção; Coagulase.

The stories of food poisoning from staphylococci, mainly by S. aureus, are frequently associates to the ingestion of food with 100 ng of enterotoxin/g or mL. The production of enterotoxin using staphylococci is strongly associated with the production of coagulase. In this paper, milk samples of 51 milk properties in Londrina (RS) and 50 in Pelotas had been evaluated. All the 101 samples had presented counts of coagulase positive staphylococci (CPS). From 552 colonies studied, 256 were CPS where 60% of the colonies were typical in Baird Parker agar and, from 296 coagulase negative staphylococcus (CNS), in mean, 60% were atypical colonies. Due to the enterotoxigenic capacity, were tested 109 CPS, being 5,5% (6) positive and 18 CNS where 1 (5,5%) were positive. The frequency of CPS EEA (5,5%) producer was similar of the CNS. There is a wide milk contamination with CPS, where, a big part (40%) of the atypical colonies is coagulase producers.