The Colonization and Infection Relationship inHospitalized Patients at Intensive Care Unit

Fadimana CATAL; Ozer AKGUL; Burcu SAPMAZ; Turgut ÇATAL; Ömer Faruk KARASAKAL; Erhan ÖZYURT; Özlem Koyuncu ÖZYURT

Volume : V, Issue : IX, September - 2015

The Colonization and Infection Relationship inHospitalized Patients at Intensive Care Unit

Fadimana Catal, Ozer Akgul, Burcu Sapmaz, Turgut Atal, Mer Faruk Karasakal, Erhan Zyurt, Zlem Koyuncu Zyurt

Abstract :

In intensive care units (ICU) identified colonization in hospitalized patients will play an important role in the propagation of the infections and the development factor of infection. In our study, we aimed to find the colonization in patients during the ICU hospitalization, the risk to determine colonization and relationship with infection. For this purpose, colonization samples taken first 48 hours and examined in between 95 adult patients ICU hospitalized. Even, none of the cases with MRSA colonization, concluded in 4 (4.2%) cases VRE, in 16 (16.8%) ESBL–producing E. coli or Klebsiella spp, in 26 (27.3%) Pseudomonas aeruginosa, in 6 (6.3%) Acinetobacter spp, in 20 (28,4%) Candida sp. colonization was determined. In 20 cases polimicrobial colonization (21%). In the light of these findings, comprehensive researches are needed to evaluate the correlation of intensive–care unit (ICU)–infection and colonization.