[Pseudomonads as a marker of the sanitary-epidemiological state of maternity institutions].

In the process of the epidemiological supervision of 4 maternity hospitals in Tyumen 453 Pseudomonas strains, classified with 9 species, were isolated and studied. The overwhelming majority of the strains isolated from nursing articles and medical equipment were classified with P. aeruginosa (86.

[Characteristics of the biochemical properties of pseudomonads isolated from environmental objects].

Biochemical characteristics of 117 Pseudomonas cultures isolated from water bodies and washings off the hospital environment objects were under study, including the strains from patients' wound surfaces. Analysis of the strains' characteristics permitted referring 83.8 +/- 3.