Can occlusive dressing composition influence proliferation of bacterial wound pathogens?

Wounds

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 4-11

  Oliveria Gandia, Maria ^a   Davis, Stephen C ^a   Mertz, Patricia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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