Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Microbiology 2008-3289 8 3 2016 10 04 210 213 EN Mostafa Dahmardehei Plastic Surgery Unit, Motahari Burn Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Faranak Alinejad Infectious Diseases Unit, Burn Research Center, Motahari Burn Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Fereshteh Ansari Department of Epidemiology, Skin and Stem Cell Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran Mahnaz Bahramian Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, Motahari Burn Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mitra Barati Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2016 04 26 2016 05 02 Background and Objectives: Infection is the most common cause of death among burnt patients and infection control decrease the rate of mortality. The use of sticky mat can control contamination by preventing the entrance microorganisms into the hospital wards. This study was designed to evaluate the sticky mats effect in reduction of microorganism’s entry by personnel shoes to burn intensive care unit (BICU). Materials and Methods: This is a simple cross sectional study. We tested outer soles of personnel’s shoes with swap and cultured them before and after sticky mat contact in the entrance of BICU. Results were analyzed with IBM SPSS version 22 software. McNemar and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks tests were used. Results: We analyzed 60 outer soles of the shoes before and after contact with sticky mats. Coagulase negative Staphylococci, Gram positive bacilli, Staphylococcus aureus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii were isolated before contact from 57 ( 95%), 32 ( 53%), 4 (6.7%) and 3 (5%) cases, respectively. Coagulase negative Staphylococci, Gram positive bacilli, Staphylococcus aureus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa were isolated after contact from 36 (60%), 30 (50%), 16 (26.6%), 2 (3.3%) and 3 (5%) cases, respectively. No Acinetobacter was isolated after contact with sticky mat. Total isolated colonies before and after contact with sticky mats were 2573 and 830, respectively. There were significant statistically differences between the colony counts of coagulase ngative staphylococci, Gram positive bacilli, and Staphylococci aureus before and after contact with sticky mats (P. < 0.001). Conclusion: Regarding to statistical analysis, the effect of mat in removing the microorganisms was 56%. It confirms the effectiveness of sticky mat controlling the infection and reducing the amount of hospital contamination. https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/view/998 https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/download/998/611