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Since the University of Chicago Burn Center routinely monitors each burn injury for sepsis by quantitative bacteriology and recently examined the microbial population present on the hands of the health care team, it was felt that these combined data would shed some pertinent information on <jats:italic>exogenous<\/jats:italic> burn wound sepsis.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Twenty-nine patients with clinical burn wound sepsis and a bacterial level of &gt;10<jats:sup>5<\/jats:sup> bacteria\/gram of tissue were studied. These patients yielded a variety of microorganisms with <jats:italic>P. aeruginosa<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Staphylococcus aureus<\/jats:italic> being predominant, followed in incidence by <jats:italic>Candida albicans<\/jats:italic>. The resident and transient microflora isolated from each member of the health care team treating the specific individual concerned did not correlate with the causative agent of burn wound sepsis. 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