Burn Wound Infections

By D. Church, S. Elsayed, Owen Reid, B. Winston, R. Lindsay. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2006

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Phage therapy in clinical practice: treatment of human infections. (2010, methodology): “Staphylococcus aureus remains a common early colonizing pathogen in burn wounds, but Pseudomonas aeruginosa is increasingly known as the most common cause of life-threatening infection in burn patients [67,68].”
Honey: its medicinal property and antibacterial activity. (2011, background): “Currently, the emerging antimicrobial resistance trends in burn wound bacterial pathogens are a serious challenge[55].”
A Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2013 Recommendations by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)a (2013, background): “aureus and MRSA from SSTIs) and VRE [192, 193].”
Burn wound healing and treatment: review and advancements (2015, background): “Damage to this barrier following a burn disrupts the innate immune system and increases susceptibility to bacterial infection [61].”
Survey of bacterial diversity in chronic wounds using Pyrosequencing, DGGE, and full ribosome shotgun sequencing (2008, background): “Chronic wounds and their associated pathogenic biofilms [20,22,24,39-44] are also associated as a primary contributing factor in hundreds of thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in direct medical costs annually [20,22,38,45-55].”