@article {1005, title = {Screening of Nasal and Hands Carriage of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococci Colonization among Lebanese Nutraceuticals Handlers}, journal = {Pharmacognosy Journal}, volume = {11}, year = {2019}, month = {October 2019}, pages = {1336-1341}, type = {Original Article}, chapter = {1336}, abstract = {

Introduction: Poor personal hygiene of the nutraceuticals handlers could be a potential source of diseases due to the high occurrence of bacterial contamination. Methods: A cross sectionnal study was conducted among Lebanese nutraceuticals handlers. A pretested structured questionnaire was used for collecting information on age, sex, marital status, service years, educational status, status of training of nutraceuticals-handlers. Results: Nasal and hands swabs were investigated for S. aureus, MRSA, CoNS and MRSE.Among 144 nutraceuticals handlers, 41\% and 69\% exhibited no bacterial growth in their nasal and hand swabs.The carrier rate of S. aureus was 11.8 and 5.6\% for nose and hands in nutraceuticals handlers.The nasal and hands carrier rate of MRSA is 6.3\% and 2.1\%, respectively.MRSE presented a rate of 10.4\% and 7.6\% for the nasal and hands carriage. Conclusion: The findings showed that the Lebanese nutraceuticals handlers are a vehicle of different resistant bacterial strains in their nasal and hands carriage,which poses a significant risk to the Lebanese consumer.

}, keywords = {Carriage, Hands, Nasal, Nutraceuticals handlers, Resistant, S.aureus}, doi = {10.5530/pj.2019.11.206}, author = {Nada El Darra and Karim Raafat and Iman El-Ghazzawi} }