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Identify the microbial species causing wound infections and evaluate their antimicrobial resistance patterns.

September 24, 2021SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaOpen Access

Microbial Species Isolated from Infected Wounds and Antimicrobial Resistance Analysis: Data Emerging from a Three-Years Retrospective Study

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Identify the microbial species causing wound infections and evaluate their antimicrobial resistance patterns.
Retrospective study conducted from 2017 to 2019 including 239 patients with infected wounds.
Thirty-four microbial species were isolated through culture methods and evaluated for antimicrobial susceptibility patterns using the Walk Away automated system.
Single-species infection occurred in 75.3% of samples, while co-infection was detected in 24.7%.
Gram-negative bacteria accounted for 57.9% of isolates (predominantly Pseudomonas aeruginosa at 40.2% and Escherichia coli at 20.7%), whereas Gram-positive bacteria comprised 36.6% (predominantly Staphylococcus aureus at 79.4%).
Resistance to at least one antimicrobial agent was observed in 88.2% of isolates, and multidrug resistance against six or more antimicrobials was detected in 29.2%.

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VPValentina PucaUniversity of Chieti-Pescara RMRoberta Zita MarulliCTO Hospital RGRossella GrandeUniversity of Chieti-Pescara

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Retrospective study finds widespread antimicrobial resistance in wound infection isolates, highlighting the critical challenge of treating multidrug-resistant pathogens.

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Puca et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d9626bf20ef26330684b82 https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10101162

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Retrospective study finds widespread antimicrobial resistance in wound infection isolates, highlighting the critical challenge of treating multidrug-resistant pathogens.

Microbial Species Isolated from Infected Wounds and Antimicrobial Resistance Analysis: Data Emerging from a Three-Years Retrospective Study

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