Clinical Microbiology: Open Access

Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from different sources

6^th Clinical Microbiology Conference

October 20-22, 2016 Rome, Italy

Ayman Ameen Samy Mohamed Ibrahim, Fawzy R El Seedy, Hala S H Salam, Eman A Khairy, Shimaa T Omara and Aya A Koraney

National Research Center, Egypt
Beni-Suef University, Egypt

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Clin Microbiol

Abstract:

Food contaminated with multiple antibiotic-resistant S. aureus can be a major threat to the public health. The purpose of this study was to isolate S. aureus from different food sources, determine their antimicrobial susceptibility as well as detection of mecA gene among some resistant isolates. Out of 125 samples from food of animal origin samples, 19 S. aureus isolates were recovered and the antimicrobial susceptibility testing showed high resistance against kanamycin, penicillin G, oxacillin, erythromycin and tetracycline. All the tested isolates were multiple drug resistant (MDR). 8 out of 19 (15.2%) isolates were phenotypically resistant to oxacillin as well as they were carriers for mecA gene.

Biography :

Ayman Ameen Samy Mohamed Ibrahim has completed his/her Master’s degree in Microbiology in 1999 and PhD in Microbiology from Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt in 2007. He/She is Assistant Professor at Microbiology and Immunology Unit of National Research Center, Egypt. He has published more than 17 papers in reputed journals.

Email: ayman_samy@hotmail.com