More serious infections, or abscesses of organs and bone can occur. Causes mastitis in humans and livestock. Due to preformed enterotoxin in food. Symptoms are nausea, cramps, vomiting, and usually diarrhea 1 to 6 hours after ingestion. Staph enterotoxin is heat stable to 100C, so refrigeration is necessary to prevent multiplication.
Source is the food-handler.
Caused by the TSST superantigen-producing bacteria. Associated with menstruation and certain tampon usage. Other than the toxins associated with toxic shock syndrome and food poisening, no single determinant can be pointed to as essential. Indeed, use of signature tagged mutagenesis in S. aureus identified no single virulence factor. D. Surface proteins 1.