RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Distribution of various pathogenic bacteria from pediatric ward settings
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 1268
OP 1271
DO 10.15537/smj.2016.11.15236
VO 37
IS 11
A1 Irfan A. Butt
A1 Bilal Aslam
A1 Muhammad H. Rasool
A1 Humerah B. Shafiq
A1 Mohsin Khurshid
A1 Muhammad A. Aslam
YR 2016
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/37/11/1268.abstract
AB Objectives: To test various items in hospital environment as reservoirs of bacteria.Methods: This simple descriptive study was conducted between June and December 2014. Pediatric wards of 4 different hospitals of Faisalabad, Pakistan were selected and 8 different items per hospital were sampled (n=160). Poisson regression analysis was carried out with R software and using lme4 package.Results: There were no differences between the hospitals regarding total number of bacterial isolates or bacterial isolates per sample source or prevalent bacterial species. Utensile tables were significantly the least contaminated source when comparing all sample sources from all hospitals (p=0.05). When testing if the bacterial species differed significantly between sample sources, Escherichia coli (p=0.05) and Bacillus (p=0.04) were found significantly high on utensils, while Pseudomonas was found significantly less on curtains (p=0.03) and doors (p=0.02).Conclusion: Due to unhygienic practices in hospitals children are exposed to pathogens steers to life threatening infection. A good control strategy should be implemented to avoid health care-associated infection.