Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence Genes` Profiles of Staphylococcus aureus in Meat and Meat Products

Abstract

resistant S. aureus (MRSA), has been considered a key contributing factor in numerous illnesses worldwide including toxic shock syndrome, septicemia, pneumonia, food-poisoning outbreaks, (Lin and Peterson, 2014;Islam et al., 2019), in addition to subclinical and clinical mastitis in dairy animals (Abdel-Raheem et al., 2023).Recently, the incidence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria has dramatically increased as a result of antimicrobials abuse, which hindered the healing process (Ammar et al., 2021a, b). The widespread dissemination of S. aureus is owing to its prospective virulence factors as well as its extraordinary capacity to withstand most antimicrobials released in recent years with the development of MDR strains (Ammar et al., 2016). MRSA has evolved into an aggressive endemic bacterium with adverse effects on public