[Antibiotic resistance of P. aeruginosa strains isolated from intensive care unit patients at the Makhachkala Traumatology Center].

ABSTRACT

Nosocomial infection is most commonly registered in the traumatology and surgery units, primarily in the intensive care unit (ICU) that is considered to be an increased risk unit owing to a large number of performed manipulations and the extensive empirical use of antibiotics. In ICU patients with nosocomial pneumonias at the Traumatology Center, nonfermentative gram-negative bacteria were isolated more frequently (51%), including P. aeruginosa (35.1%), from both patients' pathological material and environmental objects. All the cultures had typical properties; the majority of isolates belonged to serovar 02. P. aeruginosa strains were found to be polyresistant to test antibiotics.