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Provedor de dados: | Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
País: | Brazil
Título: | An outbreak of staphylococcal food poisoning in the Municipality of Passos, MG, Brazil
Autores: | Carmo,Luiz Simeão do; Dias,Ricardo Souza; Linardi,Valter Roberto; Sena,Maria José de; Santos,Deise Aparecida dos.
Data: | 2003-12-01
Ano: | 2003
Palavras-chave: | Staphylococcal enterotoxin; Food poisoning; Staphylococci; Food handlers.
Resumo: | An outbreak of staphylococcal food poisoning involving 42 people who had eaten a meal at a restaurant in the Municipality of Passos, Minas Gerais, Brazil, is reported. Thirty-one of the individuals became ill with vomiting, diarrhea and dizziness within 30 minutes after eating the meal. The foods suspected were: chicken pancake, rice, beans, tomato sauce and mashed chick-peas. Large numbers (&gt; 2.0x10(8) CFU/g) of enterotoxigenic staphylococci were present in the chicken pancake. These strains produced enterotoxins A, B and D. Swabs from the nasal cavity and throat and from under the fingernails of food handlers were cultured for the detection of enterotoxigenic staphylococci carriers. Four out of five of them were healthy carriers of enterotoxin A, B, C and D producing Staphylococcus aureus at the sites cultured and one of them was also a nasal carrier of TSST-1 toxin producing S. aureus. These results indicate that the food handlers would have been the source of the food contamination.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132003000400012
Editor: | Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-89132003000400012
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology  v.46 n.4 2003
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess