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Infection in Burns

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Different kinds of infection, such as invasive infection, gut origin infection, and other infective complications such as pneumonia, suppurative thrombophlebitis, and catheter-related systemic infections can be derived from severe burn injuries. Invasive burn infection is sepsis or sepsis with blood stream infection in burns patients caused by the invasion of the bacteria at the burn surface into the deep layers of the eschar or even subjacent viable tissue, which is the unique route of infection in burns and is identified as burn infection.

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  1. Burn Institute, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

    Guangxia Xiao (Professor)

  2. Burn Institute, Rui Jin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

    Weishi Xu (Professor)

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Xiao, G., Xu, W. (2015). Infection in Burns. In: Yang, Z. (eds) Chinese Burn Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8575-4_4

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