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Molecular detection of enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus in some ready to eat meat based sandwiches

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Meat hygiene

Abstract

Ready-to-eat (RTE) meat products sandwiches are one of the most popular fast foods on which consumers depend. Unfortunately, it may be exposed to many contamination sources and harbored many food poisoning factors, especially with street vendors emerging in the developing world. Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and its enterotoxins (SEs) are one of the most recorded food intoxication causes which contribute a health hazard risk. Therefore, one-hundred and twenty samples of beef kofta, bovine liver, chicken nuggets, and fish fillet RTE sandwiches (30 of each) were collected randomly from different street vendors and restaurants in Benha city, Qalubiya Governorate, Egypt, for bacteriological and molecular detection of coagulase-positive enterotoxigenic S. aureus contamination. Results revealed that beef kofta sandwich samples recorded the highest incidences and mean counts of S. aureus detection 40% and 12x103 CFU\g, respectively; followed by chicken nuggets, fish fillet, and bovine liver sandwich samples; conducting antimicrobial sensitivity on the isolated strains revealed totally resistance to nalidixic acid while mostly sensitive to erythromycin; On the other hand, molecular detection of S. aureus enterotoxin (SE) genes revealed detection of SeA, SeC, and SeD genes carrying strains where SeA was the most frequently detected, mixed strain carrying both SeC and SeD was detected; while failed to detect SeB gene in any of examined isolates. It is obvious that RTE meat product sandwiches may pose a risk to consumer's health and encourage the authorities to exert more control over street vendors and fast food restaurants.

DOI

10.21608/bvmj.2019.15645.1065

Keywords

RTE sandwiches, meat products, Staphylococci, S. aureus enterotoxins, Multiplex PCR

Authors

First Name

Rehab

Last Name

Gaafar

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Affiliation

faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Benha University.

Email

mhmdvet2010@gmail.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-6758-0199

First Name

Fatin

Last Name

Hassanin

MiddleName

Said

Affiliation

Food control Dept., Fac. Vet. Med., Benha University

Email

fatinsaid@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Fahim

Last Name

Shaltout

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-

Affiliation

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine ,Benha University .egypt

Email

fahim_shaltout@yahoo.com

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First Name

Marionette

Last Name

Zaghloul

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-

Affiliation

Food Hygiene Dept., Animal Health Research Institute, Benha branch

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marionettezaghloul@yahoo.com

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-

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Volume

37

Article Issue

1

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8030

Issue Date

2019-09-01

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2019-08-04

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2019-09-01

Page Start

22

Page End

26

Print ISSN

1110-6581

Online ISSN

2974-4806

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812

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Benha Veterinary Medical Journal

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https://bvmj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Molecular detection of enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus in some ready to eat meat based sandwiches

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22 Jan 2023