Microbial contamination in Al- Fayhaa general hospital

Al- Hawani, I.A.A.; Al- Mohasin, A.H.; Shaker Al-Amara, Saad; K.T.Al-Zargani,

	Microbial contamination in Al- Fayhaa general hospital
basrah journal of science
Article 1, Volume 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-208 PDF (0 K)
Authors
I.A.A. Al- Hawani; A.H. Al- Mohasin; Saad shaker Al-Amara;
Abstract
Eighty eight samples were collected in the present study from different places of Al- Fayhaa general hospital in Basrah province from the period 4/7/2008 to 4/12/2008. The samples includes 16 swabs of environment and instrument of intensive care ward , 16 swabs of environment and instrument of operation room , 9 swabs from environment and instrument of women surgical ward , 8 swabs from bathroom of women surgical ward , 5 swabs from the waste products of operations 16 swabs were taken from female patients who had been operated on by different types of operations like drawing of abscess , appendicectomy , urinary catheters surgery , infected sesser operation , 8 swabs of from bed of intensive care ward , 2 swabs of bed of operation room , 8 swabs from kitchen of women surgical ward . The result of our study showed 78 bacterial isolates after identification tests which include : morphological and biochemical tests , were 2 fungal isolates and 8 samples were given no growth of any organisms . Bacterial strains were distributed from 78 isolates as Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Staphylococcus aureus , Klebsiella spp. , Staphylococcus epidermidis , Escherichia coli , Proteus spp. In the percent 42.31% , 16.67 % , 15.38 % , 12.82% , 10.25% , 2.56 % from 78 bacterial isolates respectively . Two fungal isolates were found in 2.5 % and 8 samples shown no microbial growth with 9.09% . Before washing the wards of hospital with chlore and septadine the growth of bacteria were crowded , after septadine sterilization the growth were decrease but still found , and killed after use of chlore as sterilizer .

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