Bacteriological evaluation of wounds in seriously burned hospitalized patients.
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 10(2). In nine of these, it reached 10(5), which is equivalent to 10(7) CFU/g of burned tissue.
Silva
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Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Bèlo Horizonte, Brazil.
Macedo
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Damasceno
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CA
de Carvalho
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Cisalpino
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000382:microbiology*; D002648:Child; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D005260:Female; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests