Prevalencia y fenotipificación de Staphylococcus y Streptococcus spp. de interés clínico en el personal operativo del Hospital Básico de Catacocha

Abstract

Abstract:Epidemiological studies document that nosocomial infections contribute to the colonization of opportunistic microorganisms at the hospital level, being asymptomatic carriers of health professionals. It is due to this fact that the present study was designed to identify the prevalence and phenotyping of Staphylococcus and Streptococcus spp. of clinical interest, in the Basic Hospital of Catacocha in the period 2018, collecting samples of nasal swabs and hands from 105 professionals of the different hospital services, who through biochemical tests and cultures, showed a bacterial growth of 93.33% at the of nasal passages, the same one that was relatively high, unlike hand swabs, identifying more frequently Staphylococcus epidermidis at the nasal level with 83.81% and 37.14% at the hand level followed by an opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, where we obtained 9.52% at the level of nostrils and 4.76% in hands, without having obtained growth of strains of Streptococcus. These results indicate the need to monitor health personnel to avoid epidemiological outbreaks and, above all, to monitor good hand hygiene practices at the hospital level.