An outbreak of staphylococcal food poisoning in the Municipality of Passos, MG, Brazil

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology

Luiz Simeão Do Carmo²  Ricardo Souza Dias¹  Valter Roberto Linardi¹  Maria José De Sena²  Deise Aparecida Dos Santos² 

[1] ,Fundação Ezequiel Dias Laboratório de Enterotoxinas Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais ,Brazil

关键词: Staphylococcal enterotoxin;    food poisoning;    staphylococci;    food handlers;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-89132003000400012

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

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 (> 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.

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