Quantifying Bacterial Bioburden during Negative Pressure Wound Therapy: Does the Wound VAC Enhance Bacterial Clearance?

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 276-280

  Weed, Tonja ^a   Ratliff, Catherine ^a   Drake, David B ^a   Fee, Timothy E ^b   Mast, Bruce ^b   Morain, William D ^b   Furlow Jr , Leonard T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DEVICE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

DEBRIDEMENT; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 1542343993     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000111861.75927.4d     Document Type: Review

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