Table 1. Primers used in this study for the detection of the genes

Primer	Oligo nucleotide sequence (5’-3’)	Product size(bp)	Reference
16S rRNA-F	GTA GGT GGC AAG CGT TAT CC	228	Monday and Bohach (1999)
16S rRNA-R	CGC ACA TCA GCG TCA G
nuc-F	GCG ATT GAT GGT GAT ACG GTT	279	Brakstad et al. (1992)
nuc-R	AGC CAA GCC TTG ACG AAC TAA AGC
mecA-F	ACT GCT ATC CAC CCT CAA AC	163	Mehrotra et al. (2000)
mecA-R	CTG GTG AAG TTG TAA TCT GG