Incidence of Staph. aureus in meat products in Aswan city,Egypt

Abstract

Meat is considered an excellent source of high quality animal protein, vitamins as B complex and minerals as iron. Therefore a total of 100 fresh and frozen meat samples (beef) were collected from Aswan city supermarkets for evaluation of the presence of contamination with Staphylococcus aureus. The results revealed that the incidence of isolated Staph. aureus from frozen meat samples were 36% and from fresh meat samples were 34% and the Staphylococcal count in examined fresh and frozen meat were2.1x10 3 ±1.05x10 3 and 2.2x10 3 ±0.52x10 3 ; respectively. The results confirmed by using the Polymease Chain Reaction (PCR).