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PHAGE TYPES OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS IN HOSPITAL INFECTIONS

SYED IQBAL ALAM, KHURSHEED ALI KHAN*, SHEIKH AIJAZ RASOOL** AND AQEEL AHMAD**

Abstract: Of the 110 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from clinical specimens particularly from osteomyelitis and septic arthritis when subjected to bacteriophage typing using 8 available phages showed that 48 (43.62%) were typable. Among the typable isolates 16 belong to phage type 68, 26 to phage type 44A and 6 to 187 while 62 (56.36%) remained untypable. Phage types 71, 77, 187 and 3A of S. aureus were also isolated from skin of healthy normals and hospitalized patients. Phage type 187 showed some relationship with S. aureus isolated from clinical specimen and has epidemiological importance.

Department of Microbiology, Federal Urdu University, Arts, Sciences and Technology, Gulshan Campus Karachi, Pakistan.
Department of Pharmaceutics, Baqai Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Department of Microbiology, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.