Isolation of staphylococci from food handlers and investigation of their enterotoxigenicity and susceptibility to some antibiotics [Gi{dotless}da Çali{dotless}şanlari{dotless}ndan İzole edilen Stafilokoklari{dotless}n Enterotoksijenitelerinin ve Bazi{dotless} Antibiyotiklere Duyarli{dotless}li{dotless}klari{dotless}ni{dotless}n Araşti{dotless}ri{dotless}lmasi{dotless}]

A total of 92 isolates of staphylococcal species consisting of 7 coagulase positive staphylococci (cps) and 85 coagulase negative staphylococci (cns) were isolated from hands of the 25 food handlers in different restaurants. similarly,13 coagulase positive staphylococci and 96 coagulase negative staphylococci isolates were cultured from the nasal cavity of the workers. only one isolate of all the hand isolates was resistant to vancomycin. nine of all the coagulase negative staphylococci isolate including 4 hand and 5 nasal cavity samples were resistant to methicillin. four of 20 coagulase positive staphylococci isolate produced staphylococcal enterotoxins (se). only one hand isolate of all the coagulase negative staphylococci isolates produced staphylococcal enterotoxins e. these results indicate,like before,that the food handlers would have been the main source of the staphylococcal contamination of food. it is important to note that coagulase negative staphylococci can produce staphylococcal enterotoxins and they can also cause to food poisoning.