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Abstract
This study was planned to assess the safety of some fast food meals prepared in restaurants of Sohag city. One hundred samples of fast food sandwiches beef shawerma, beef burger, chicken shawerma, and chicken pane (25 of each) were collected from fast food restaurants and 30 hand swab samples from food handlers there. (For isolation of Salmonella species, E.coli and Staphylococcus aureus).
The results revealed that the isolation of Salmonella species from beef shawerma, beef burger, chicken shawerma and chicken pane sandwiches and hand swab samples with an incidence of 32%, 24%, 36%, 28%, 6, 7%, respectively.
The isolated strains of Salmonella species were classified as Salmonella tsevie (15.6%), Salmonella labadi (6.2%), Salmonella infantis (9.4%), Salmonella Typhimurium (31.2%), Salmonella montevideo
(6.2%), Salmonella larochelle (3.1%), Salmonella enteritidis (18.7%), Salmonella shubra (3.1%), Salmonella anatum (3.1%) and Salmonella virchow (3.1%).
The results showed that the isolation of E.coli from beef shawerma, beef burger, chicken shawerma and chicken pane sandwiches and hand swab samples with an incidence of 12%, 16%, 24%, 8%, 10%, respectively.
The isolated strains of E.coli were classified as E.coli O121:H7
(EPEC) (5.5%), E.coli O26:H11 (EHEC) (27.8%) , E.coli O128:H2
(ETEC) (27.8%) , E.coli O119:H6 (EPEC) (16.7%), E.coli O86 (EPEC)
(5.5%) , E.coli O44:H16 (EAEC) (5.5%) , E.coli O111:H4 (EHEC) (5.5%) and E.coli O159 (EIEC) (5.5%).
The results reported that the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus from beef shawerma, beef burger, chicken shawerma and chicken pane sandwiches and hand swab samples with an incidence of 32%, 24%, 40%, 36%, 50%, respectively.
Public health importance of the isolated microorganisms as well as methods of protecting consumers were discussed.