A total of 150 raw milk samples were collected randomly
(75bulk farm milk and 75 raw market milk from different dairy
shops, groceries and supermarkets) in Beni-Suef Governorate,
Egypt. Milk samples were identified and rapidly delivered to
the Food hygiene and control laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, Beni-Suef University in an insulated ice-box to be
examined. In addition to 25 hand swab samples and 30 stool
samples were collected from milk handlers from the same
examined dairy farm and shops in Beni-Suef Governorate
(APHA, 1992). A swab was taken from each stool samples using
a sterile swab and then inserted into sterile buffered peptone
water (BPW) tubes under aseptic conditions (Sadoma, 1997).
The tubes were labeled then ice packed and transferred
immediately to the lab.