 
        
						Ludmilla Santana Soares e Barros 
	
					    												Professor at the Center of Agrarian, Environmental and Biological Sciences (CCAAB) Federal University of Bahia Recôncavo (UFRB), 
Rui Barbosa Street, 710, Postal Code: 44380-000, Cruz das Almas, Bahia
Brazil						                            
                            
						
 Research Article
												Study of Staphylococcus aureus in raw and pasteurized milk consumed in the Reconcavo area of the State of Bahia, Brazil 						
Author(s): LÃlian Porto de Oliveira, Ludmilla Santana Soares e Barros, Valdir Carneiro Silva and Marina Gonçalves CirqueiraLílian Porto de Oliveira, Ludmilla Santana Soares e Barros, Valdir Carneiro Silva and Marina Gonçalves Cirqueira             
						
												
				 This study is to verify the presence of Staphylococcus aureus in milk consumed in Reconcavo Baiano, Brazil for which 50 samples of raw milk and 20 samples of pasteurized milk were analyzed from 10 municipalities of this region (Cabaceiras do Paraguaçu, Cachoeira, Conceição do Almeida, Cruz das Almas, Dom Macedo Costa, Maragogipe, São Sebastião do Passé, Saubara, Santo Amaro and Santo Antônio de Jesus). The Staphylococcus aureus was isolated in Baird Parker agar where typical and atypical colonies were selected and submitted to coagulase and complementary tests. Out of 50 samples of raw milk studied, 34 showed contamination by Staphylococcus aureus , corresponding to 68% of the samples being contaminated. In the pasteurized milk, 6 samples were contaminated with this microorganism, corresponding to 30% of the 20 samples. The presence of this pathogeni.. View More»
				  
												DOI:
												 10.4172/2157-7110.1000128