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This study was conducted to assess the occurrence of genes responsible for the production of staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE), enterotoxin-like toxins (SEI) and toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) in coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) isolated from ready-to-eat food from bars and restaurants. One hundred and eighteen CoNS strains were tested using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to five superantigenic toxin genes, including five different types of classical enterotoxins (sea, seb, sec, sed and see) and the toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (tsst-1) as well as to supertoxin-like genes. PCR-positive isolates were then tested using immunoenzymatic methods (SET-RPLA, Vidas SET 2) for toxin expression. Out of 118 CoNS strains, the presence of staphylococcal enterotoxins was confirmed in 72% of them. The most frequently found enterotoxin-like genotype was ser, selu. Two of the tested strains had up to ten different enterotoxin genes in the genome at the same time. Although no production of enterotoxins was detected in the CoNS, which means that their possible role in the epidemiology of food-borne diseases is minimal, the data demonstrated that the toxigenic capacity of the CoNS should not be ignored, and that this group of microorganisms should be continuously monitored in food.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/pathogens9090734","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,6]],"date-time":"2020-09-06T23:12:49Z","timestamp":1599433969000},"page":"734","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":49,"title":["Enterotoxigenic Potential of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci from Ready-to-Eat Food"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9695-1470","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wioleta","family":"Chaj\u0119cka-Wierzchowska","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial and Food Microbiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Cieszy\u0144ski 1, 10-726 Olsztyn, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6855-6804","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joanna","family":"Gajewska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial and Food Microbiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Cieszy\u0144ski 1, 10-726 Olsztyn, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Patryk","family":"Wi\u015bniewski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial and Food Microbiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Cieszy\u0144ski 1, 10-726 Olsztyn, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anna","family":"Zadernowska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial and Food Microbiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Cieszy\u0144ski 1, 10-726 Olsztyn, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2020, August 12). 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