INTRAVENOUS CENTRAL CATHETER COLONIZATION BY IN A BURNED PATIENT.

is an opportunistic pathogen rarely responsible for human infection. However, it has been reported that it causes skin and soft tissue infections and bacteremia in immune-compromised patients, such as cellulitis, abscesses, bacteremia, and wound infection. It is an oxidase and catalase-positive non-fermenter gram-negative rod that produces hydrogen sulfide.

Prevalence Of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Isolated From Burn Wounds In Algeria.

We conducted a thirty-four-month retrospective study in the Burns Center from June 2015 to 30 April 2018. A total of 1585 burn wound swabs were taken from 258 admitted patients, of both sex and average age from 2 to 84 years old. Out of the 1585 burn wound swabs, 79.

Characterization of antibiotic resistance profiles in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from burn patients.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) and metallo-beta-lactamases (MBLs) in burn patients in Algeria.

Methods: Between April 2016 and October 2019, 47 non-redundant isolates of PA were collected from 47 burn patients admitted to the Department of Burns at the Military Hospital of Algiers in Algeria. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed by agar diffusion and the Phoenix automated method.

Malignant melanoma with areas of rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation arising in a giant congenital nevus with RAF1 gene fusion.

A girl, born with a posterior  lumbosacral giant congenital nevus, developed a central nodule that expanded over a period of 14 months into a 10-cm pedunculated mass. Histological analysis of the mass revealed melanoma of myxoid, small round-cell type with areas of  rhabdomyosarcomatous  transformation confirmed by immunohistochemistry. RNA sequencing identified an in-frame SASS6(e14)-RAF1(e8) fusion in both components and the nevus.