Aerobic and facultatively anaerobic bacteria isolated from surgical infection patients
Iskhakova, K.I.; Sunomova, A.S.; Shabanova, N.G.; Bazhenov, L.G.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 4: 45-50
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 6408857 Document Number: 201457
The ecological structure of infections in surgical patients with different postoperative complications (suppurative wounds, abscesses, peritonitis, etc.) and suppurative lung diseases were studied. During the period of 6 years (1975-1980) 5401 samples of clinical material were studied. 1380 samples (25.6%) were sterile, from 2254 samples (41.7%) monocultures were isolated, in 1767 samples (32.7%) microbial associations were detected. Of 5962 isolated cultures, 1816 (30.5%) were Gram-negative bacteria (GNB), 3532 (59.2%) were Gram-positive bacteria (GPB) and 614 (10.6%) were yeastlike fungi. The tendency towards the increase of the role of GNB in the etiology of postoperative complications was observed. Among GNB Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains were prevalent (36.2%). In the group of GPB coagulase-negative staphylococci were rather frequently found to be the causative agents of surgical infections.