in a survey of 150 burned patients, only 2 cases were found to be infected with subscar candidiasis and subscar phycomycosis based on histological and culture result. • , • colonization of the burned wounds with fungi were seen. in a total of 12 patients.

Intradermal infection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in burned mice was pathogenically analyzed. An abscess was formed in normal mice intradermally infected with 10(8) CFU/mouse of MRSA, and all of these mice survived after the infection; however, abscess formation was not demonstrated to occur in burned mice similarly exposed to the pathogen, and all of these mice died w...

METHODS General Three severely burned patients were infused with dopamine-2-uC (3-hydroxytyramine, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine), the immediate precursor in the biosynthesis of noradrenaline (see Fig. 1). Infusion was purposely delayed until 3 wk after the burn, since it is at this time that the depletion of adrenaline and noradrenaline most commonly manifests itself (6, 10, 11). Whereas, the ...

Objective: To investigate infection distribution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on burned patients in our hospital as well as its drug resistance in order to provide reference of clinical use of antibiotics. Methods: Statistically analysed 481 Pseudomonas aeruginosa and their drug sensitive test results from burned patients who were sent to hospital from January 2004 to December 2006. Results: In ou...

Fire over the past decade has affected forests in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California, providing an excellent opportunity to examine how this disturbance, and subsequent post-fire salvage logging, influenced California spotted owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) breeding-season site occupancy dynamics there and in the nearby San Jacinto Mountains. Using occupancy survey data f...

Burn injury is rare during pregnancy. However, severe burn injury during pregnancy is very dangerous for both mother and foetus. Maternal and foetal outcome depends on the mother's total body surface area (TBSA) burned. In women with more than 50% TBSA burned, foetal and maternal complications are considerable. Our study on pregnant women over a period of 12 years in Kermanshah, Iran, found 59....

In the last decade, forest fires have become one of the worst natural disasters in Portugal, causing great forest devastation, leading to both economic and environmental losses and putting at risk populations and the livelihoods of the forest itself. In this paper we present Bayesian hierarchical models to analyze spatiotemporal fire data on the proportion of burned area in Portugal, by municip...

Land cover is critical information to various land management and scientific applications, including biogeochemical and climate modeling. In addition, fire is an essential factor in shaping of vegetation structures, as well as for the functioning of savanna ecosystems. Remote sensing has long been an important and effective means of mapping and monitoring land cover and burned area over large a...

The regenerative repair of deep‑degree (second degree) burned skin remains a notable challenge in the treatment of burn injury, despite improvements being made with regards to treatment modality and the emergence of novel therapies. Fetal skin constitutes an attractive target for investigating scarless healing of burned skin. To investigate the inflammatory response during scarless healing of b...