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Bacteriological evaluation of wounds in seriously burned hospitalized patients
1991; Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine; Volume: 24; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/s0037-86821991000300007
ISSN1678-9849
AutoresSueli de Lourdes Nogueira Vilela Silva, Oswaldo Gontijo Macedo, Carlos Américo Veiga Damasceno, Maria Auxiliadora Roque de Carvalho, E. O. Cisalpino,
Tópico(s)Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management
ResumoDuring 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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