Secondarily Infected Traumatic Lesions
Bacterial infections of the skin can occur after any injuries, such as wounds from surgery, animal bites, burns, cuts, and scrapes. When these wounds become infected by normal skin bacteria, they are known as a secondarily infected traumatic lesions. You are at a higher risk of developing a chronic, unhealing wound if you have diabetes, are obese, suffer from malnutrition, are on chemotherapy or radiation treatment, or are elderly.
Secondarily infected traumatic lesions are treated with topical antibiotics, especially for infected surgical wounds.
