epidemiological analysis of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strains in Mansoura university hospitals [MUHs.]

ABSTRACT

Background and aim of work stenotrophomonas maltophilia [S. maltophilia] is recognized as an important cause of nosocomial infection, especially in immunocompromised patient's .The treatment of S. maltophilia infection presents a therapeutic challenge because the organism is usually resistant to most of the commonly used antimicrobial agents. Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus - polymerase chain reaction [ERIC-PCR] is a simple and rapid method to detect the genomic polymorphism at the strain level in nosocomial outbreaks due to S. maltophilia. This study investigated the isolation, risk factors, antimicrobial resistance and genotypic relationship of 22 S. maltophilia isolates from 22 patients in MUHs. During the period from March 2007 to April 2008