The effect of an antimicrobial gauze dressing impregnated with 0.2-percent polyhexamethylene biguanide as a barrier to prevent Pseudomonas aeruginosa wound invasion

Wounds

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 169-176

  Cazzaniga, Alejandro ^a,c   Serralta, Victoria ^a   Davis, Stephen ^a   Orr, Robert ^b   Eaglstein, William ^a   Mertz, Patricia M ^a  

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

^b Kendall Company   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

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