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2003, Cilt 17, Sayı 3, Sayfa(lar) 293-296
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MICROORGANISMS ISOLATED FROM WOUND AND BLOOD CULTURE OF BURN PATIENTS AND THEIR ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY
Aydın ÇİFTÇİ1, Sebahat AKSARAY2, Salih CESUR3
1Ankara Numune Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İç Hastalıkları Kliniği; Ankara
2Ankara Numune Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Mikrobiyoloji ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Laboratuvarı; Ankara
3Refik Saydam Hıfzıssıhha Merkezi Başkanlığı, Tüberküloz Referans ve Araştırma Laboratuvarı; Ankara
Keywords: Burn patients, burn wound, hemoculture, infectious agents, in vitro antibiotic susceptibility, disk diffusion test

The most common cause of mortality in burn patients is infection. Various microorganisms can cause infections in burn patients since the skin barrier is destroyed. This study aimed at determining the distribution and antibacterial susceptibilities of microorganisms isolated from wound and blood cultures of burn patients in the Burn Unit, Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital. The most frequently encountered microorganisms among totally 108 isolates were Pseudomonas aeruginosa (50/46.2%), Acinetobacter spp. (24/22.2%) and methicilline-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (9/8%). With disk diffusion method high resistance of microorganisms to multiple antibiotics was detected. Procedures for contact isolation and therapy according to the results of antibiotic susceptibility testing would significantly control infection and drug resistance in burn units.

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