Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen producing
substances that define its pathogenicity. Production of thermostable
enterotoxins causing gastrointestinal diseases is, in terms of
food microbiology, the most important feature of some S. aureus
strains. In total 21 different types of enterotoxin have been identified
(Schelin et al., 2011). Prevalence of enterotoxin genes in
S. aureus strains is variable and depends often on the environment
from which a particular strain was isolated. Concerning milkrelated
environments, the gene encoding enterotoxin C (sec) was
reported several times as the most frequent gene for enterotoxin
present in S. aureus