Adhesion to the intestinal mucus is one of the main
selection criteria for probiotics (Ouwehand, Tuomola,
To¨lkko¨ , & Salminen, 2001). The adhesive properties of
staphylococci have received little attention. Therefore, this
study investigated the adhesive capacity of selected S. xylosus
and S. carnosus isolates from traditional sausages to
human intestinal mucus. As found for enterococci by Laukova
´, Strompfova´, and Ouwehand (2004), our isolates,
tested for adhesion ability to mucus were found to be
strain-dependent; that is, among the same species, different
adhesive capabilities were detected