Author: Huynh Van Ba
ABSTRACT
Chickenpox is an acute infectious skin disease caused by Varicella Zoster virus with clinical manifestations like rash, blisters, small boils, pustules, scales that coexist and scatter on the body. The disease is transmitted mainly by inhaling the virus from saliva droplets suspending in the air or exposing directly to secretions of skin lesions in patients.
Objective:
- Identify the rate and a number of factors related to bacterial superinfection in patients treated in Can Tho Hospital of Dermatology.
- Identify the invitro resistance rate to antibiotics of bacteria causing superinfection in patients with chickenpox.
Method: Descriptive cross-sectional with analysis.
Result:
The study of 55 inpatients with chickenpox treated in Can Tho Hospital of Dermatology from May to October of 2014 recorded as follows:
- Some antibiotics had high sensitivity rate should be interested in the chickenpox treatment regimen, particularly patients admitted to hospital after 3 days of illness, patients self-treated without doctor’s indications and patients who had not been used antibiotics previously.
- Using of antibiotics against superinfection to limit prolonged treatment in hospital. At the same time, there was a positive value in preventing the risk of scar formation, epecially lesions on face. In particular, young women.
- Paying attention to these antibiotics that had high sensitivity rate (Levofloxacin, Ciprofloxacin, Oxacillin) and limiting some antibiotics that had common resistance rate (Trime/Sulfa, Penicillin G, Ceftazidim, Erythromycin).
Key words: Chickenpox, superinfection by chickenpox.