Microbiology of chronic leg and pressure ulcers: Clinical significance and implications for treatment

Nursing Clinics of North America

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 207-216

  Ebright, John R ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBODY; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AEROBIC BACTERIA; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DECUBITUS; FUNGUS; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; MICROORGANISM; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SKIN GRAFT; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE FLAP; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; PRESSURE ULCER; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 19744366622     PISSN: 00296465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2004.09.003     Document Type: Review

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