Occurrence of enterotoxigenic staphylococcus aureus in some camel's meat products

ABSTRACT

Fifty samples of camel's meat products were collected from Cairo and Giza supermarkets which were represented as burger, frankfurter, luncheon, minced meat and rice kofta. The mean values of S. aureus count were detected and were 12.3 x 10[2]/g, 7.7 x 10[2]/g, 10.6 x 10[3]/g, 1.1 x 10[3]/g and 7.01 x 10[3]/g, respectively. The incidence of S. aureus were 40% in burger, luncheon and minced meat while 30% and 60% in frankfurter and rice kofta, respectively. The two enterotoxigenic strains were isolated from minced meat and rice kofta with C and D type, respectively. The public health aspects as well as the hygienic measures were discussed