Evaluation of bacteriophage therapy in burn wound sepsis

ABSTRACT

Phage therapy was used to control pseudomonas infection in 10 cases having a post burn raw areas [10-25%]. Post phage cultures showed absence of the organism in four patients and present in six of them. Satisfactory graft take was present in six cases only and inferior in four cases. It is not practical and should be reserved for cases who are resistant to the available antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agent