[Prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from cockroaches from Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari hospitals]

ABSTRACT

Background: Hospital infection is usually taken into consideration as a serious public health problem. A set of factors might give rise to the occurrence of these infections, including the presence of insects as the carriers of multidrug-resistant bacterial species. The present study, then, aimed to evaluate the contamination of cockroaches' methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA] and its susceptibility pattern