Research Article
First Record of Isolation and Characterization of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus lugdunensis from Clinical Samples in Iraq
Table 1
Numbers, sources, and percentages of coagulase negative staphylococci isolates.
| | Source | Number (%) | CoNS No. (%) |
| | Wound swabs | 105 (17.4) | 42 (23.56) | | Ear swabs | 28 (4.6) | 6 (3.37) | | Urine swabs | 50 (8.3) | 11 (6.17) | | Skin lesion swabs | 25 (4.1) | 10 ( 5.6) | | Throat swabs | 32 (5.3) | 11 (6.17) | | Burn swabs | 80 (13.2) | 15 (8.4) | | Blood culture | 69 (11.4) | 13 (7.3) | | Sputum | 36 (5.9) | 4 (2.24) | | Sub axillary swabs* | 64 (10.6) | 52 (29.2) | | HVS** | 23 (8.3) | 2 (1.12) | | Stool swabs | 38 (6.3) | 2 (1.12) | | Other | 52 (8.6) | 10 ( 5.6) |
| | Total | 602 (100) | 178 (100) |
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These samples were taken from immature patients in neonate intensive care unit.
High vaginal swabs.
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