ABSTRACT

Staphylococcus aureus especially, is an important agent of food poisoning all over the world. It is the most important bacterial agent implicated in toxin production (toxin shock and staphylococcal scalded – skin syndromes), direct invasion and systemic disseminating (bacteraemia, septic shock syndrome, skin infections and abscesses. S. aureus is often found in biofilms formed on medical devices implanted in the body or on human tissue. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from only 34 samples of the 150 samples collected with a high 23 samples showing biofilm formation indicating that most of the strains were survivors form antibiotics treatment. The Staphylococcus aureus strains were found to be susceptible to the Streptomycin with 96.3% and 94.7% for Amoxil with treated number of isolates as 27 and 19 respectively. The strains were more resistant to Septrin with 84.6% and Ampiclox with 66.7% from 13 and 18 samples respectively. Levofloxacin also have notable antibiotics sensitivity to the Staphylococcus aureus strains with 90.0% from 20 samples while Ciprofloxacin and Erythromycin have sensitivity of 84.6% and 84.0% with 26 and 25 samples tested respectively. Gentamicin and Chloramphenicol however, have a sensitivity of 72.7% from 33 samples for the former and 52.6% from 19 samples for the latter.