High Incidence of Multidrug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from Infected Burn Wounds in a Tertiary Hospital

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of healthcare associated infection especially in patients admitted to critical care units such as intensive care units (ICUs) and burn care centers (Moazami-Goudarzi et al., 2012) Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a non-fermentative gram negative bacterium, is widely distributed in nature, including hospital environment. P. aeruginosa is a ubiquitous micro-organism that can rapidly acquire resistance to different broad-spectrum antibiotics (Indu et al., 2014). P. aeruginosa is responsible for about 10%–20% of nosocomial infections in the form of septicaemia in intensive-care units (ICUs), cystic fibrosis, burn and wound infections, etc., (Noha et al., 2015).