Isolation and identification of some pathogenic microbes from supermarket carts and baskets in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [electronic resource].

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Shopping carts and grocery baskets from 15 different supermarkets and grocery stores around Riyadh City. Saudi Arabia were randomly swabbed from samples for potentially harmful pathogens. Samples were inoculated into appropriate culture media; the single colonies of the isolates were identified by microscopic morphology, biochemical and physiological tests. The API 20E system was used in the further identification of the isolated micro-organisms grown on SAP. The bacterial isolates were Bacillus spp., Corynebacterium spp., Klebsiella ozaenae, Serratia marcescens as well as Aspergillus spp. as a fungal isolates. All these micro organisms are potential pathogens lUrking in the otherwise ·clean" shopping equipments. Further attention has to be done by appropriate authorities aside from the hygienic and precautionary measures by the shoppers themselves through efficient handwashing especially after shopping and handling shopping equipments.

Summary in Arabic.

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