Risk factors and outcome associated with fungal infections in patients with severe burn injury: 10-year retrospective IFI-BURN study.
Emmanuel DudoignonSylvie ChevretSorel TsagueSamia HamaneMarc ChaouatBenoit PlaudEric VicaultAlexandre MebazaaMatthieu LegrandAlexandra SerrisBlandine DenisFrançois DepretSarah DellièrePublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)
This study describes 21st-century characteristics of IFDs in sever burn patients confirming known risk factors with thresholds and identifying the indoor injury as an independent factor associated to IFDs. This suggests a link to contamination caused by fire damage, which is highly susceptible to aerosolizing spores.