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September 10, 2025The Professional Medical JournalOpen Access

Hand washing measures and palmar bacterial floral susceptibility to antibiotics in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Peshawar.

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MKMaria KhanSKSaba KhanSBShifa Basharat

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Cross-sectional observational study explores hand washing and antibiotic resistance in healthcare workers in Peshawar, highlighting significant hygiene gaps.

Key Points

  • High resistance rates were observed in bacterial isolates, with over 80% resistant to common antibiotics like amoxicillin.
  • Proper hand washing practices were inadequately followed, with only 45.3% of respondents always using soap during hand washing.
  • Staphylococcus epidermidis was the most commonly identified organism, constituting 43.1% of isolates.
  • The study underscores the critical need for improved hand hygiene education among healthcare personnel.

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Khan et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23caeb210217d6478ad28https://doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2025.32.09.3428
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