date:Jul 28, 2016
d it survived in the mushrooms nonetheless. The problem was that testing for theStaphylococcusorganism alone did not detect the toxin that had formed, which clearly could survive heating. The tests used to enumerateStaphylococcuswere not great predictors of whether that particular variant was toxic and while we tested for Staphylococcus in this case and others, because the organism died so easily, sometimes we wouldnt find it. In other words, if we foundStaphylococcus, we really didnt know if th