A Comparative Study of Microbial Load in Government, Private and Charitable Hospitals in Akola City

The study was carried out in hospitals of Akola city. Microorganisms have great importance due to their disease producing ability. Through different routes they infect the host to form disease condition. As we go through the history it is noticed that hospitals have always been reported as a source of infection to the admitted patients. In all a total of 646 samples were collected from different sources in the hospitals of Akola. Total number of isolates obtained from government, private and charitable hospital were different. The important pathogenic isolates associated with infections were Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which were observed in higher percentage from all hospitals, while Enterococcus faecalis, Enterobacter sp., and Klebsiella pneumoniae were observed in less percentage as compared to others.