Detection of Environmental bacterial contamination for the kitchen and its tools at Al-Hilla Teaching Hospital, Babylon, Iraq

The study was conducted in order to take an idea about some types of bacteria that cause a contamination in the Kitchen of Al-Hilla Teaching Hospital. This survey included the collection of 217 swabs samples from Al-Hilla Teaching Hospital for the period from January to April 2018 for the purpose of investigating the contaminated bacteria of the kitchen and tools in the hospital mentioned above. The results of the study showed that 130 samples with 59.90 positive results for bacterial microscopy, while 87 samples with 40.09 negative results were given. The isolates were seven species that were divided into two types of Streptococcus species including Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus pneumonia and two types of Staphylococcus included Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis and the Pseudomonas sp have also included two types of bacteria which is Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas psedumonali and only one type of E. Coli. The study showed that the most common bacterial isolates was Pseudomonas.

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Bacteria ، Streptococcus ، Staphylococcus ، Pseudomonas ، E. Coli ، Babylon ، Iraq