Recommendations for treatment of war-associated infections are generally not supported by cohort studies (Murray et al. 2008). High rates of war wound infections caused by antimicrobial drug resistant organisms have been shown in the Middle East but reports generally only include combatants. Due to the use of body armor and forward medical therapy this data may not be applicable to a civilian setting. Furthermore, available studies are either performed on old wounds (Teicher et al. 2014) or on all available culture samples, disregarding infection signs (Sutter et al. 2011; Dau, Tloba, and Daw 2013). Without clinical signs of infection, routine collection of peri-debridement culture samples is inappropriate in war-associated injuries (Murray et al. 2008). The differentiation between contamination and infecting organisms is crucial in order to avoid unnecessary medication, especially limit the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics as overuse may lead to development of multi-drug resistant organisms (Eardley et al. 2011). Cultures collected from acute wounds with clinical signs of infection will be analyzed.