Antibiotic Resistance Profile of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from Imported and Domestic Meat Samples

Abstract

Food-borne microbes are considered one of the most important health risks at the present time, as well as an economic problem where the contaminated material must be destroyed and large sums of money lost to the producing companies. The result of examining the samples of cans using the pour method was that imported cans are more polluted than local cans. The sellers, as these bacteria cause food poisoning and most of them are resistant to antibiotics, which increases their danger. The highest percentages of antibiotic resistance were detected for trimethoprim followed by gentamicin and penicillin G, while most isolates were sensitive to ciprofloxacin and nitrofurantoin. The 60 samples were collected from canned food. They were randomly collected from different supermarkets in Hilla, Iraq. It also showed the results of microscopy and biochemical tests. In addition to the recognition of isolates by the Vitek 2 system, it was found that 30% of them contain Staphylococcus aureus, 20% Enterobacteriaceae, and 10% different bacteria, including Streptococcus and other species. Sensitivity tests were conducted for all the samples.