[The micro-ecology of burn hospitals]

Klin Lab Diagn. 2017;62(5):310-312. doi: 10.18821/0869-2084-2017-62-5-310-312.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The article analyzes agents of wound burn infection on departments of the Privolzhskii` Federal medical research center during last 2.5 years. The leading role in infection etiology in the burnt ones belongs to staphylococci. At that, in adult patients more frequently S.aureus is separated and in children - coagulase-negative strains. During current year, the second place in the structure of wound burn infection factually is divided in equal proportions A. baumannii, P. aeruginosa and K. pneumoniae. About 80% of isolates of K. pneumoniae are produced by β-lactamase. No producers of metallo-β-lactamases were detected among Klebsiella. Annually, number of wound enterococci increases, making up to 15.3% in children and 11.1% in adults.

Keywords: A. baumannii; K. pneumoniae; P. aeruginosa; S. aureus; burn infection; carbapenemases; β-lactamases; β-lactamases of enlarged spectrum of CTX-M groups.

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