Bacterial contamination, bacterial profile and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of isolates from stethoscopes at jimma university specialized hospital

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Shiferaw, Teklu ^b   Beyene, Getenet ^a   Kassa, Tesfaye ^a   Sewunet, Tsegaye ^a  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Adama Hospital Medical College   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CITROBACTER; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COTTON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISINFECTION; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; LABORATORY; MEDICAL STUDENT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STETHOSCOPE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STETHOSCOPES;

EID: 84889977767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-12-39     Document Type: Article

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