Table 2 Distribution of Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying staphylococcal enterotoxin genes from mobile phones of food vendors
Place | No. of isolate | No. (%) of S. aureus carried se gene | No. (%) of S. aureus carried | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sea | seb* | sec | sed | sej | sem | sel | seq | ser | |||
Walking street | 23 | 13 (56.5) | 10 (43.5) | 0 | 3 (13.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Food center | 26 | 17 (65.4) | 6 (23.1) | 5 (19.2) | 7 (26.9) | 0 | 0 | 4 (15.4) | 1 (3.8) | 2 (7.7) | 0 |
Total | 49 | 30 (61.2) | 16 (32.7) | 5 (10.2) | 10 (20.4) | 0 | 0 | 4 (8.2) | 1 (2.0) | 2 (4.1) | 0 |