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Food Poisoning Germs: Bacteria – Staphylococcus Aureus

By admin on March 11th, 2010

Food Poisoning Bacterium: Staphylococcus Aureus

Staphylococcus Aureus: This is a spherical bacterium which causes food poisoning appears in pairs, short chains, or bunched, grape-like clusters. They are gram positive. This bacterium is normally found in meat and its products, poultry products, salads like potato, egg, macaroni, chicken, and tuna. It is even found in bakery products like cream-filled pastries, cream pies, and chocolate eclairs, and milk and dairy products.

This bacterium is present in air, dust, sewage, water, milk, and food or on food equipment, environmental surfaces, humans, and animals. However, humans and animals are the main carriers of this bacterium. This bacterium can be found in nasal passages, throats, hair and skin of a healthy individual.

In most cases of food poisoning, this bacterium is not life threatening. However, for the elderly persons, infants, and the individuals who have weak immune systems this can be deadly. Normally, a victim of food poisoning shows the symptoms like vomiting, stomach pain, nausea and prostration. If that person is badly affected then he may experience headache, fluctuation in pulse rate and blood pressure, muscle pain.

In this food poisoning type, the severity and duration of the symptoms depend on an individual’s immune system, the amount of the toxins present in the contaminated food and the amount of contaminated food consumed. The recovery from this food poisoning illness may take 2 – 4 days depending on the severity of an individual case.