2583-7214 TMP Universal Journal of Research and Review Archives 2583-7214 Ms Ashvi Jain 10.69557/ujrra.v1i2.30 CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTIDRUG RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUSAUREUS ISOLATED FROM VARIOUS CLINICAL SAMPLES B.Abd Farah Risan Mohsen Hashem Al-ugaili Dhafar N. Department of Biotechnology, College of Biotechnology, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq Department of Biotechnology, College of Biotechnology, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq Department of Biotechnology, College of Biotechnology, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq 05 12 2022 1 2 94 101 Copyright © 2022 Farah B. Abd 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Staphylococcus aureusis a major hospital and community pathogen that is attributed to a wide variety of infections in humans and bio film production is one of the most important virulence factors of S. aureus that contributes to its multiple drug resistance. Therefore, searching for a valuable alternative to the used antibiotics is considered an important goal for study. For this reason one hundred and fifty different clinical samples were collected from various clinical sources and healthcare workers in Al-Imame in Al-Kadhimae in Medical City,Al-Numan Teaching Hospital, Medical City/Teaching laboratories and Central Child Teaching Hospital during the period from1/10/2020to 1/2/2021 in Baghdad City. Isolates were identified by conventional methods (cultural, microscopic and biochemical tests) in addition to the identification by the VITEK® 2Compact, and fifty isolates were recorded as Staphylococcus aureus.

 Keywords Resistant Staphylococcus aureus VITEK 2 clinical samples