Table 3.
Prevalence of different toxin genes in S. aureus isolates from RTE food and raw food samples (processed raw meat, fish and milk) in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
| Sources of strain | No. (%) of strains positive for: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pvl |
se |
tsst-1 |
et |
mecA | ||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | a | b | ||||
| Ready-to-eat foods (n = 26) | 21 (84) | 6 (66.7) | 3 (75) | 14 (82.3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 5 (83.3) | 4 (100) | 0 (0) | 8 (88.9) |
| Raw foods ( n = 9) | 4 (16) | 3 (33.3) | 1 (25) | 3 (17.6) | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 1 (16.7) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (11.1) |
| Total ( n = 35) | 25 (71.4) | 9 (25.7) | 4 (11.4) | 17 (48.6) | 1 (2.9) | 0 (0) | 6 (17.1) | 4 (11.4) | 0 (0) | 9 (25.7) |