Bacteriological evaluation of wounds in seriously burned hospitalized patients

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Sueli De Lourdes Nogueira Vilela Silva¹  Oswaldo Gontijo Macedo¹  Carlos Américo Veiga Damasceno¹  Maria Auxiliadora Roque De Carvalho¹  Eduardo Osório Cisalpino¹ 

关键词: Nosocomial infection;    Burn wounds infection;    Infecção hospitalar;    Infecção de queimaduras;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86821991000300007

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

During the period between May and December 1988, 21 patients were studied bacteriologically at Hospital João XXIII's burn's unit which belongs to "Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais" in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A qualitative and quantitative evaluation of aerobic and facultative bacteria from burn wounds was carried out by the standard filter paper disc technique, including antibiotic susceptibility. At the same time an evaluation of those bacteria isolated from the environmental unit was performed. The most common organisms recovered from wounds of patients were: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and Staphylococcus epidermidis. P. pseudomallei was the most frequent strain recovered from environmental specimens. In nearly all patients specimens (16 in total) from whom P. aeruginosa was isolated, the rate of CFU/cm² of skin was above 10². In nine of these, it reached 10(5), wich is equivalent to 10(7) CFU/g of burned tissue.

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