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Cross infection on a combined paediatric plastic surgery and burns unit. A clinical and microbiological audit

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Stephen Pedler, Carolyn Reid

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Abstract

To try and determine any presence of cross-infection between patients, prospective screening of 226 consecutive admissions on our burns unit was performed by taking nose, throat and wound swabs. Infected wounds were also swabbed and a correlation was sought between the organisms cultured on screening swabs and those responsible for infection. We did not find any evidence of cross infection occurring between the burns patients and the other categories of patients on the ward. Screening swabs were useful in detecting carriers, who were found to be more of a risk to themselves than to other patients on the unit. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.

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Author(s): Camilleri IG, Pedler SJ, Murphy O, Reid CA

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Burns

Year: 1999

Volume: 25

Issue: 7

Pages: 655-658

Print publication date: 27/09/1999

ISSN (print): 0305-4179

ISSN (electronic): 1879-1409

Publisher: Pergamon

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0305-4179(99)00052-2

DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(99)00052-2

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