Nosocomial Bacterial Strains Isolated from Patients Who Reside in Different Health Facilities in Duhok City with Their Antibiotics Resistance Patterns

Nosocomial infections are health associated problem since the emergence of multidrug resistance bacteria, MDR bacteria have been linked with mortality and morbidity globally. Most frequent bacterial strains that have been recovered from Iraqi patients reside in hospital are identified, antibiotics patterns for all isolates have been included in this study. S. aureus and mannitol negative S.aureus have high frequency rate among recovered nosocomial bacteria with 25% and 29% consequently. 90% of all bacterial strains were multi-drug resistant bacteria, MDR incidence was higher in female in compare to male p<0.05. following international infection control guidelines and CDC recommendations are required to burden the spread of nosocomial infections and MDR bacteria among Iraqi patients.