A total of 41 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus obtained from bovine mastitis in 7 different states in Mexico were analyzed by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to determine the presence of encoding genes for enterotoxins A, B and C. The oligonucleotides were designed by specific regions of the sea, seb, sec genes. Surprisingly, none of the isolates presented the prospective amplification bands when they were run on agarose gels. On the contrary, reference strains CECT 976 SEA; CECT 5191 SEB; and CECT 4465 SEC showed the prospective amplification products. In order to confirm these results, enterotoxin production A, B, C, D, and E was determined by enzyme linked fluorescent assay (ELFA) using a MiniVIDAS system, on 15 Staphylococcus aureus selected at random from among the 41 isolates. None of the analyzed strains was positive to the test, whereas reference strains enterotoxins producing: CECT 976 SEA; CECT 5191 SEB; CECT 4465 SEC, CECT 4466 SED; CECT 5192 SEE produced concentrations of the toxins detected for this technique. The role of enterotoxins in the pathogenicity of S. aureus in bovine mastitis in Mexico is discussed.
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