Infection still remains one of the major problems in burn treatment. The authors investigated the occurence of burn wound pathogens in burn wound biopsies and/or semiquantitative wound surface off-prints. As the results have shown, trends of a decreased contribution of „classical pathogens“, like Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, to burn wound infections were observed. The role of „other pathogens“, like Entero- bacter, Acinetobacter, etc., which were quite rare in the past, is on the opposite, increasing. One of the explana- tions can be the increasing rate of early surgical treatment methods of deep burns. The results were in accordance with similar studies from other burn centres.

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