What did I Just eat?
At a state dinner, the menu included steak or fried chicken, baked potato or homemade potato salad, green beans, and a “green” salad. The salad dressing was either Italian or Russian. Dessert included either chocolate cake or apple pie. The beverage was water, iced tea, or coffee. After 3 hours, only the diners who had eaten the potato salad, became violently ill with vomiting, stomach cramps, and/or diarrhea. It became immediately obvious that the source of the food poisoning was the potato salad. When the potato salad was sent to a clinical microbiology lab, which of the following bacteria was isolated in large numbers?
Staphylococcus aureus