title: Bacterial contamination of skin used as a biological dressing. A potential hazard.
abstract: Bacterially contaminated skin used as a biological dressing on burn wounds can cause serious or even lethal infections, three examples of which are cited. Cadaver-skin allografts were frequently found to contain pathogenic bacteria. The frequency of infections due to the use of contaminated skin grafts on open wounds is unknown.
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D001424:Bacterial Infections; D001458:Bandages; D001688:Biological Products; D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D002102:Cadaver; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology*; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014021:Tissue Preservation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products