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Provedor de dados: 	Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Balneotherapy is a potential risk factor for Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization	
Autores: 	Deutsch,Gabriela; Bokehi,Luciana Castilho; Silva,Ana Elisa Gonçalves Pereira Rodrigues; Guimarães Junior,Luiz Macieira; Rodrigues,Rogério; Esper,Luciana Maria Ramires; Gonzalez,Alice Gonçalves Martins; Paula,Geraldo Renato de; Castilho,Selma Rodrigues de; Teixeira,Lenise Arneiro.	
Data: 	2016-03-01	
Ano: 	2016	
Palavras-chave: 	Pseudomonas aeruginosa/colonization; Burn patients; Balneotherapy; PFGE.	
Resumo: 	ABSTRACT The practice of immersion in burn patient has been abandoned in many parts of the world but in Brazil it is still common. The aim of this study was to ascertain if balneotherapy is a risk factor for Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization in thermally injured patients. Eighteen patients from a Burn Center were studied for 14 weeks for Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Samples were collected by swabbing the exudate of wounds, before and after giving bath to the patients and from balneotherapy table. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis was used to determine bacterial genetic relatedness. Thirty-seven P. aeruginosa isolates were detected from 292 swabs collected from patients' burn surface area and from the balneotherapy table. Profile analysis of P. aeruginosa DNA fragmentation showed 10 clones among the 37 strains analyzed. Type A is the most prevalent clone, with 23 strains distributed into eight subtypes. These were present in the swabs collected, before and after the patients' bath, from the surface of the bath table, suggesting that there was cross-contamination between the patients in different ways. This work demonstrates that balneotherapy is a risk factor in the Burn Center studied, because the same clone was found among P. aeruginosa isolates collected at various points and times.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502016000100014	
Editor: 	Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1984-82502016000100014	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences  v.52 n.1 2016	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess