Bacteriology & Antibiotics

This descriptive study was carried out within the three three public hospitals in

Kingdome of Jordan, i.e. Bashir, Prince Hamzah hospitals in Amman and Al Zarqa hospital. The data were collected from the infection control committees of these hospitals. The study is focusing on both patients and health workers in the concerned hospitals for bacterial infections , the data were collected from the departments/wards of surgical and wounds, acute surgical and orthopedic, urinary tract infections and ENT, ICU, CCU, internal medicine, catheterization lab and chemotherapy in the period from Apr 15th to May 15th 2016. The prevalence and exposure-associated rates of infection is reported according to age and sex and don't including the occupational breakdowns in Jordan. the results show that three members of ESKAPE group; Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumonia in addition to Acinetobacter baumannii is most causing bacterium agent of nosocomial infections in the public hospitals in Jordan and the ICUs departments are the main infected departmentsdistributed; device associated infections at participating ICUs; central line associated blood stream infection (CLABSI), Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP), CatheterAssociated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI), acquired infections in the wards,infection in surgical sites and community acquired infections.