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AIVI - September 2008 - Issue 1
https://doi.org/10.4081/ijfs.0.1019

BIOMOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STRAINS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA) ISOLATED FROM MEAT AND MEAT PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS

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Received: 7 February 2013
Accepted: 7 February 2013
Published: 21 September 2008
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Staphylococcus aureus, Methicillin resistance, MRSA, mecA.

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V. D’Orio
lucia.zoppi@pagepress.org
Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy.
A.R. Festino
Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy.
C. Costanzo
Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy.
P. Di Ciccio
Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy.
G. Colavita
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari Ambientali e Microbiologiche, Università del Molise, Campobasso, Italy.
A. Vergara
Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy.
371 samples from meat and meat-environments were collected and examined for the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The structural gene for penicillin-binding protein 2a (mecA gene), was amplified by PCR and detected by agarose gel electrophoresis. 96 samples (25.8%), contained S. aureus and 2 of them (2.08%) were mecA positive. Further assays are necessary to evaluate the spread of MRSA in food and food-environments.

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BIOMOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STRAINS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA) ISOLATED FROM MEAT AND MEAT PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS. Ital J Food Safety [Internet]. 2008 Sep. 21 [cited 2026 Oct. 15];1(1):35-8. Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2008.1.35

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