[Evaluation of the efficacy of collection media used in hospital inspections].

A total of 2303 parallel studies of washings off hospital environmental objects were carried out with 1% sugar broth and 1% peptone water used as enrichment media. Sugar broth was found preferable for the isolation of Staphylococci and gram-negative nonfermenting bacteria. Direct inoculations of washings off the environmental objects collected at treatment and prophylactic institutions for Staphylococci were found ineffective.