Nosocomial infection in neonatal intensive care unit at Al-Hussein University Hospital

ABSTRACT

This study was performed on three groups Group I included fifty- one full-term and preterm neonates selected from 256 patients admitted at NICU, group II included thirty-three personnel and group III included fifty environmental sites. Swabs were taken from throat, nasal, nipple and paraumbilical area of the patient's group, from throat and finger tips of the personnel group and from the tips of the ventilator tubes, incubators and other equipment of the environmental group. They were inoculated on different culture media and growth was identified by colonial morphology, Gram-stained film, biochemical reaction and antibiogram