Detection of multidrug resistant Pseudomonas spp. in clinical cases and hospital environments at Thi-Qar Province

الملخص EN

-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