Rajani Shrestha

TL;DR: The need of improved hand hygiene among healthcare workers and regular cleaning/disinfection of sites of frequent public contact is highlighted and biofilm forming ability offers additional survival advantage to the organisms on these objects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional study was conducted among 100 preclinical and 100 clinical sciences medical students to determine the prevalence and to compare the colonization rates of nasal and pharyngeal bacterial pathogens.

TL;DR: High prevalence of multidrug resistant bacteria in ICUs was recorded and Gram negative bacilli were predominantly associated with LRTI among ICU patients; Acinetobacter species being most common isolate.

TL;DR: In this article, a hospital-based prospective study was conducted in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal, where a total of 146 samples collected from surfaces of incubators, radiant warmers, suction tips, ventilators, stethoscopes, door handles, weighing machines, mothers' beds, phototherapy beds, laryngoscope, telephone sets, blood pressure machine, etc.

TL;DR: Bacterial contamination of the objects/instruments of the ICU was recorded to be high and the most common contaminating bacteria were S. aureus with a high percentage of MRSA and emergence of VRSA.