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Detection of Multidrug Resistant Pseudomonas spp. in Clinical Cases and Hospital Environments at Thi-Qar Province | ||
| Journal of College of Education for Pure Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 26-31 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Bassam Y. Khudaier; Yahia A. Abbas; Hind A. Salih | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A total of 260 swabs from clinical and hospital environments were collected during September 2011 to March 2012. Primary culturing on blood agar and MacConkey agar revealed that 25 ( 9.6%) were gave positive growth for pseudomonas spp., 14 (56%) was from clinical cases as follow: 10 ( 71.42%) from burns, 2 (14.3%) from wounds, 1 ( 7.14%) from urinary tract infections, 1 (7.14%) of respiratory tract infections, and 11 (44%) from hospital environments . All the 25 isolates were screened for their resistance against 13 antibiotics of different classes by disk diffusion method . All the tested isolates were appeared resistant to at least seven of antibiotics , hence the isolates are considered to be multidrug resistant | ||
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