Phenotypical Comparison between Environmental and Clinical Strains Isolated from an Intensive Care Unit.

Background: () causes a variety of nosocomial infections that mainly affect critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs). The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of in the ICU environment and evaluate the antibiotic resistance and biofilm formation ability of the environmental isolates compared to those isolated from ICU patients simultaneously.

Methods: A total of 166 non-duplicate ICU samples (80 environmental and 86 clinical) were collected between January 2019 and January 2020.