Open AccessBlood Stream Infections in Patients in the Burn Intensive Care Unit
Author(s) -
Hun Gu Lee,
Juah Jang,
Jeong Eun Choi,
Doo Cheol Chung,
Jung Wan Han,
Heungjeong Woo,
Wook Jeon,
Byoung Chul Chun
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
infection and chemotherapy/gam'yeom gwa hwahag yo'beob/infection and chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.724
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2092-6448
pISSN - 1598-8112
DOI - 10.3947/ic.2013.45.2.194
Subject(s) - acinetobacter baumannii , medicine , bacteremia , pseudomonas aeruginosa , sputum , antibiotics , pathogen , staphylococcus aureus , acinetobacter , intensive care unit , blood culture , microbiology and biotechnology , sputum culture , klebsiella pneumoniae , immunology , bacteria , tuberculosis , biology , pathology , biochemistry , genetics , escherichia coli , gene
The study on bacteremia helps empirically select the proper antibiotics before the results of culture test about causative pathogen. The purpose of this study is to investigate causative pathogen in bloodstream infection, changing aspects based on elapsed time after burn, relationship with other sites and resistance of important causative pathogen against antibiotics through analysis on bacteria isolated from blood culture of patients hospitalized in burn intensive care unit (BICU).