Prevalence and phylogenetic relationship among methicillin- and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococci isolated from hospital's dairy food, food handlers, and patients

Abstract

A significant role can be played by food and food handlers in the transmission of methicillin- and vancomycin-resistant <i>Staphylococci</i> to patients, which has been proved in this study through the close phylogenetic relation between <i>S. epidermidis</i> isolated from food, food handlers, and patients' diarrheal samples.