

@article {13907,
	title = {Prevalence of {Salmonella}, {Shigella} and intestinal parasites in food handlers in {Irbid}, {Jordan}},
	journal = {J Diarrhoeal Dis Res},
	volume = {8},
	number = {4},
	year = {1990},
	pages = {160{\textendash}162},
	abstract = {During a one-year period, 283 food handlers in Irbid, Jordan were investigated for the presence of potential enteropathogens in their stools. The prevalence rate of enteropathogens among non-Jordanian food handlers (48.0\%) was significantly higher (p less than 0.05) than that of the Jordanian group (12.3\%). The isolation rates of Salmonella and Shigella were 6\% and 1.4\% respectively. Multi-drug resistance was frequent among isolates of Salmonella group B and Shigella spp. Intestinal parasites detected in the stools of food handlers included Ascaris lumbricoides (4.9\%), Giardia lamblia (3.9\%), Schistosoma mansoni, (2.8\%), hookworms 2.5\%, Hymenolyepis nana (1.8\%), Trichuris trichiura (1.1\%), Entamoeba histolytica (0.7\%), and Taenia saginata (0.4\%). This study emphasises the importance of food handlers, particularly the non-Jordanians, in Jordan, as potential source of food-borne infection.},
	author = {Al-Lahham, A B and Abu-Saud, M and Shehabi, A A}
}
