Comparison of Survival of Healthcare Associated Bacteria on Materials used for Making White Coat

Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) are of global concern in this present era and white coats play an important role the transmission HAIs. The most common healthcare-associated bacteria Enterococcus species, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumanni, Pseudomonas aeruginosa Enterobacter species (ESKAPE bugs). These capable surviving on which could act as fomites purpose study was to compare duration survival different materials used for making coats. Materials like pure cotton, artificial cotton silk, spun crepe were cut into swatches 1cm2 size sterilized by autoclaving. Five isolated from clinical specimens grown 5 % sheep blood agar bacterial suspensions made sterile physiological saline. immersed suspension kept petri plates at 25°C. viable counts determined definite time intervals surface plate method. shows that among bacteria, S.aureus survived maximum up 52 days. significantly longer than P.aeruginosa A.baumannii (p <0.05). only 20 days maximum. All shortest crepe. Therefore, be a better material