Abstract:ObjectiveTo evaluate the epidemic characteristics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA)infection in patients in ICU through typing of PA by random amplification polymorphism DNA (RAPD). MethodsThirteen strains of PA from lower respiratory tract in patients with nosocomialacquired pneumonia were typied by RAPD method, and were compared with antimicrobial drugresistance spectrum typing. ResultsThirteen strains of PA were divided into two drugresistance phenotypes, type A (12 strains, 92.31%) and type B (1 strain, 7.69%), the dominant strain was type A; these strains were divided into two genotypes with RAPD typing, type Ⅰ(6 strains, 46.15%) and typeⅡ(7 strains, 53.85%).The dominant strains were 7 strains with both drugresistance type A and molecular type Ⅱ as well as 5 strains with both drugresistance type A and molecular type Ⅰ, these dominant strains were the pathogens causing PA nosocomial infection in ICU. ConclusionPA can cause outbreak and epidemic of infection in ICU, the epidemic strains were drugresistance type A/molecular type Ⅱ as well as drugresistance type A /molecular type Ⅰ.PA can cause multidrug resistance,RAPD typing is the ideal molecular epidemiological method for tracing source of infection.