Abstract:Objective: To evaluate the level of contamination in different hospital's wards and kitchens in AL-Yarmouk teaching hospital in Baghdad -Iraq.
Method:The study was done from the 1 st of January, 2017 to the 30 th of June, 2019. A total of 7742sterile cotton swabs were collected randomly from the following wards: Burns, RCU, CCU, NICU, (Dialysis, Bronchoscopy, Endoscopy) unites and Kitchens. Samples were cultured in different agars and incubated for 24-48 hrs at 25 °C and 37 °C for fungi and bacterial growth, r… Show more
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