Among the three employees of the hotel restaurant handling or
producing ice-cream, only one harboured an enterotoxigenic S. aureus.
However, this strain differed substantially from the outbreak strain in
terms of pheno- and genotype. Both, the outbreak causing S. aureus of
spa-type t127 (CC1) and the one of spa-type t160 (CC12) found in the
nasal cavity of the employee, are Methicillin-sensitive S. aureus
(MSSA) clones, having the potential for colonization and causing endogenous
disease (Strommenger et al., 2008; NRC for staphylococci,
unpublished results). Most recently, MSSA of spa-type t127 was found
in the nasal cavity of food handlers in China (Ho et al., 2014). Though,
the two clones must not be of human origin, only. E.g. MSSA of spa-