Prevalence and phylogenetic relationship among methicillin- and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococci isolated from hospital's dairy food, food handlers, and patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of the present work was to investigate the mutual role that may be played by the served dairy food and food handlers in the transmission of methicillin- and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative Staphylococci to patients who were hospitalized in Qena City, Egypt.

Materials and methods

A total of 210 samples including 90 dairy food samples which offered to the patients in the hospital, 60 nasal and hand swabs from food handlers working in the hospital, and 60 nasal and diarrheal swabs from patients suffering from diarrhea were investigated for the presence of coagulase-positive S. aureus and coagulase-negative Staphylococci, then isolates were screened for methicillin and vancomycin resistance phenotypi

SUBMITTER: El-Zamkan MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6882726 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature