Author:
Subhi Israa Mamdooh,Abdulghaffar Saba Nazeih,Khraibet Kawther Aidan
Abstract
Burn injury is a prevalent and severe form of trauma, posing a significant global public health concern. This study included isolating causative agents involved in nosocomial burns in Iraqi patients. 65 swabs from burn wounds were collected aseptically from a specialty hospital in Baghdad city. The swabs were cultured on routinely used culture media prepared in the laboratory and diagnosed using conventional biochemical tests, and the VITEK-2 compact system validated their findings. The findings revealed that 47 (72.3%) isolates had growth, and the remaining 27.7% of the swabs did not grow. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the predominant species bacteria isolated in percent (43%), followed by Staphylococcus aureus in percent (26%), Corynebacterium spp. (11%), Proteus vulgaris (6%), whereas "Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, and Serratia marcescens" isolated in similar percent (4%), and Klebsiella spp. in the lowest percent (2%). Moreover, antibiotic susceptibility testing was also done using VITEK-2 compact system against Amoxiclav, Ticarcillin, Ceftriaxone, Imipenem, Gentamicin, Amikacin, Tetracycline, Doxycycline, Ciprofloxacin, and Erythromycin.
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