Genotyping Staphylococcus aureus Isolates with RS-PCR from Chicken Meat in Chennai City

Abstract

antibiotic resistance (Chua et al., 2014). They harbour variety of virulence factors which includes toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1), exfoliative toxin, enterotoxins, Panton-Valentine leukocidin and enterotoxin-like (Kot et al., 2016;Wang and Muir, 2016). They are often being isolated from meat, raw milk, the processing surfaces and food handlers (Johler et al., 2018). S. aureus strains major concern is antibiotic resistance evolving deadly Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)