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Microbiological Profile of Pin Tract Infections due to External Fixators
Introduction: Pin tract infections are complications associated
with external fixators. Proper diagnosis and treatment can
prevent further complications related to the infection. There are
limited numbers of studies on this infection and thus treatment
is usually based on individual’s experience. Therefore, this
study was undertaken to have a better understanding of pin
tract infections and to help us establish a treatment protocol in
the hospital.
Aim: To determine the incidence of pin tract infections among
all patients who have external fixators, to identify the causative
agents and study their antibiotic sensitivity pattern.
Materials and Methods: The present study was a crosssectional study which was conducted in a tertiary hospital
for patients who had external fixators. After obtaining ethical
clearance and informed consent from the patient, all patients
were monitored and if there was clinical suspicion of infection,
discharge/pus was collected from the infection site and
processed in the microbiology laboratory as per standard
laboratory protocol to isolate and identify the causative agent.
Antimicrobial susceptibility using Kirby Bauer’s disc diffusion
method. Statistical analysis was done by using Microsoft
excel 2010.
Results: It was found that out of the 30 patients included in the
study, six patients showed clinical evidence of pin tract infections
with male preponderance. The most common isolate was
Acinetobacter baumanii followed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa,
Citrobacter koseri with variable antibiotic susceptibility pattern.
Conclusion: Pin tract infection occurred in 20% of the patients.
Early diagnosis and treatment prevents complications which
further reduces the cost of treatment and the number of days
of hospital stay
Tuberculosis: integrated studies for a complex disease 2050
Tuberculosis (TB) has been a disease for centuries with various challenges [1]. Like
other places where challenges and opportunities come together, TB challenges were
the inspiration for the scientific community to mobilize different groups for the
purpose of interest. For example, with the emergence of drug resistance, there has
been a huge volume of research on the discovery of new medicines and drug
delivery methods and the repurposing of old drugs [2, 3]. Moreover, to enhance the
capacity to detect TB cases, studies have sought diagnostics and biomarkers, with
much hope recently expressed in the direction of point-of-care tests [4].
Despite all such efforts as being highlighted in 50 Chapters of this volume, we
are still writing about TB and thinking about how to fight this old disease–implying
that the problem of TB might be complex, so calling the need for an integrated
science to deal with multiple dimensions in a simultaneous and effective manner.
We are not the first one; there have been proposed integrated platform for TB
research, integrated prevention services, integrated models for drug screening,
integrated imaging protocol, integrated understanding of the disease pathogenesis,
integrated control models, integrated mapping of the genome of the pathogen, etc.
[5–12], to name some.
These integrated jobs date back decades ago. So, a question arises: why is there a
disease named TB yet? It might be due to the fact that this integration has happened
to a scale that is not global, and so TB remains to be a problem, especially in
resource-limited settings.
Hope Tuberculosis: Integrated Studies for a Complex Disease helps to globalize
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