دراسة التلوث البكتيري المصاحب للحروق الجلدية و بيان مدى استجابته للمضادات الحيوية

Abstract EN

The infection that related with burns usually cause many of health problems due to destruction of the skin tissues that considered the largest part of human body that protect body from external factors in addition to the suppression of immunity in the site of burn, so the aim of this study is to define the causative agents of microbial burn contamination and concern the antibiotics against it.

Isolation of bacteria had been doing by make skin swaps from burn site to 54 patient and inoculated to different culture media like nutrient broth, blood agar and MacConkey agar.

The results appeared that 77.7% of samples were positive to the bacterial culture and there were two species of bacteria in this study responsible of the bacterial infection of the burns, they were Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus with 66.6% and 33.3% of isolation respectively.

In the other hand, two antibiotics work efficiently on P.

aeruginosa and they were Gentamicin and Ciprofloxacin, while each of Amoxiclave, Ciprofloxacin and Tetracycline are act effectively on S.

aureus.