Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus and Classical Enterotoxin Genes Among Sudanese Food Handlers

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Journal Cureus

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2021 Jan 4

PMID 33391963

Citations 4

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Omar B Ahmed

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Abstract

Food handlers who carry enterotoxin-producing could become potential reservoirs of Staphylococcal food poisoning. The study is a cross-sectional one aimed to determine the prevalence of methicillin-resistant (MRSA) and staphylococcal enterotoxins from randomly selected food handlers in Al Jazirah state, Sudan. Culture swabs were collected from the hands and nasals of food handlers (2016-2018). Identification of was done on the basis of conventional laboratory tests. All isolates were screened for MRSA and staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) genes by polymerase chain reaction. The strains were isolated from 25% of the collected culture swabs of which 42% were confirmed as MRSA. The existence of one or more of enterotoxin genes was confirmed in 34.4% of the isolated strains. The combined staphylococcal enterotoxin genes were found in 9.6% of the isolates. The SE genes among MRSA strains (61.5%) were found to be higher than methicillin-sensitive strains (14.8%). The most frequent staphylococcal enterotoxin genes were SEA (19.4%) followed by the SEB (8.6%), SEC (4.3%), and SED (2.1%). The carriage rate of MRSA strains demonstrated a higher rate of staphylococcal enterotoxins genes than methicillin-sensitive . There is an increasing prevalence of MRSA compared with the previous rates and staphylococcal enterotoxin genes among Sudanese food handlers, which is a serious problem for public health.

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