Plasmid profiles as indicators of the source of contamination of Staphylococcus aureus endemic within poultry processing plants
@article{Dodd1988PlasmidPA, title={Plasmid profiles as indicators of the source of contamination of Staphylococcus aureus endemic within poultry processing plants}, author={Christine E R Dodd and B J Chaffey and William Waites}, journal={Applied and Environmental Microbiology}, year={1988}, volume={54}, pages={1541 - 1549} }
A total of 530 strains of Staphylococcus aureus were isolated from the defeathering machinery of a chicken processing plant and from neck skin samples of carcasses at different stages of processing in two visits 4 weeks apart. Eleven different plasmid profiles were detected in the isolates, eight being common to both visits. The plasmid profiles of the strains forming the majority of the population on the freshly slaughtered birds were rarely present in the strains isolated from the pluckers…
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