OCCURRENCE OF BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION IN OPERATION THEATER AND RELATED TO SURGICAL SITE INFECTION IN MEDICAL BENGHAZI CENTRE

Abstract

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are leading cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitals. Both the antimicrobial resistance and SSIs are the worst complications that directly affect a patient health and safety. The present investigation aimed to study bacterial contamination in operation rooms in Benghazi Medical Centre (BMC).Ninety seven swabs were collected from several parts of the operation theatre. The specimens were collected during the period from 2017 – 2018. Bacterial isolates were identified, and tested against common used antimicrobial agents the results revealed that the spread of bacterial contamination in operation room was 67%. All isolates from operation room were sensitive to imepenem ,azithromycin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin (100%) followed tobramycin,ceftazidime, gentamycin(66.67%) whereas, all isolates were resistant to cefexim, tetracyclin, carbencillin, septrin, cephalexin, augmentin, cefoxtin, cefuroxime sodium by (100%), on other hand, the rate of infection in surgical site was (75%), the most prevalent pathogens was Klebsiella pneumonia(16%) followed by Acinetobacter bummannii, Pseudomonas aerginosa and Staph aurues (12%) Protues mirablis (10%) Enterococus spp (8%) followed Enterobacter aerogenes (4%) Yersinia enterocolitica (2%). Obtained results showed that most of the isolates from surgical site were multidrug resistant to common used antimicrobials as well as suggest the importance of environmental and surface contamination control to prevent SSI.