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Abstract

This study aimed to isolate and identify Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in raw camel milk (RCM) samples collected from various individual farms in the Al Madinah region, Saudi Arabia, and to establish an antibiotic susceptibility profile of S. aureus isolated from RCM. Out of 115 RCM samples cultured, 52(45.2%) were isolated and detected in the tested samples as suspected S. aureus. Out of the positive samples (n=52), 96.2% were confirmed as S. aureus by the automated method. Antimicrobial resistance profiles of the confirmed isolates to 8 common antibiotics used by veterinarians in the study area were then investigated. The study revealed that the highest resistance was observed to penicillin G as the ?-lactam antibiotic group (73.1%) and tetracycline as the tetracycline antibiotic group (61.5%). In comparison, the S. aureus isolates showed the highest sensitivity to clindamycin as the macrolide antibiotic group (84.6%), followed by ciprofloxacin as the quinolone antibiotic group (65.4%).