@article{ajmr2016425,
author={{Hussein, H. A. and Ibrahim, M. K. and El-Din, H. A. Nour and El-Shatoury, E. H. and El-Fouly, M. E. and Abd-Eal, S. S. and El-Naga, M. N. Abu},
title={Molecular Screening of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin Type A Encoding Gene from MRS Clinical Isolates},
journal={American Journal of Microbiological Research},
volume={4},
number={2},
pages={68--72},
year={2016},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmr/4/2/5},
issn={2328-4137},
abstract={Antibiotic resistance is a great problem in Egyptian hospitals and clinical centers. The aim of this study was the characterize of different clinical isolates of antibiotic resistant especially methicillin resistant staphylococci (MRS) on the basis of their production of enterotoxin A. Eighty four samples of bacteria were isolated from wound pus, throat, sputum, conjunctiva, urine and stool of patients in the Egyptian National Centre for Clinical and Environmental Toxicology. Sixty-two isolates had the typical biochemical characteristics of the <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>, while two isolates were identified as <i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i>. Forty two of the isolates were methicillin resistant, all were showed multidrug resistant to thirteen antibiotic. Twenty isolates encoded <i>ent </i>A gene (nineteen were <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> and one was <i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i>). Only twelve out of twenty <i>ent </i>A gene carriers can produce ent A protein which detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Also, all carried <i>mec</i> A gene isolates were resistant to vancomycin. These findings prove that the staphylococcal clinical infections can cause food borne illness and vice versa.},
doi={10.12691/ajmr-4-2-5}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}