Isolation of Pathogenic Bacteria from Equipment of the Care Units, Hands and Mobile Devices for Medical Staff in Educational Al-Hussein Hospital

Abstract

Bacterial contamination of intensive care units is of medical concern because it is one of the  large risk factors of  ICU -acquired infections and centre point of multi-drug resistant pathogens . Cell phones are important source of the microbial transmission as human pathogens also may be cause increased risk for incidence of  bacterial infections as well as natural microbiota of human skin .The aim of this study to isolate and diagnose bacteria from intensive care units and mobile devices for medical staff  in these units at Educational Al -Hussein Hospital In the city of Nasiriyah.

      Collection of samples from teaching Al-Hussein  hospital, the number of samples 100 distributed Between Swabs of mobiles(30) teaching Al-Hussein  hospital   medical staffs  and ( 50) from  hands of nursing and worker and Technicians and doctor Stethoscope also collecting samples(20) swab from  department of    ICU (Intensive care unit),CCU (Critical care unit), RCU (Respiratory care unit) collect the samples from medical equipment in  care unit (ECG (Electro cardio graph), DC- Shock, Suction Device  (sucker) , Monitor Device  and Ventilator Device )analyzed by standard Bacteriological methods.

      The frequency  pathogenic bacteria obtained in clinical isolates from the sections was 60 out of 20 swab. The maximum frequency of E. coli is 15 isolates by (25)%, most of them in Ventilator Device, The lowest frequency was for Staphylococcus epidermitis with 3 isolates by (5)%, mostly in Suction unit(sucker)and The positive culture was (32) which is more than negative culture(18) out of 50 swabs, But higher positive culture found in a stethoscope with 8 isolates (25)% followed by  in hands of technician , Workers , with 7 isolates (21.8)% Respectively as well as highest number and percentage of bacterial contaminated on phone of  medical and health staffs were E.coli, Enterococcus faecalis(16.3  ) % Respectively followed by Staphylococci aureus (14.5%), and Klebsiella pneumonia (12.7%) .bacterial cultures found at higher rate among age groups (31-40) years by 56.3%. But the female showed higher rate of  bacterial cultures compares to males by  56.2% .

Keywords: intensive care units( ICU ) , Bacterial contamination , E.coli , Hospital