What are biofilms? Evaluation and management in open skin wounds [7]

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 743-745

  Boutli Kasapidou, F ^a,c   Delli, F ^a   Avgoustinaki, N ^a   Lambrou, N ^b   Tsatsos, M ^a   Karakatsanis, G ^a  

^a State Hospital for Skin and Venereal Diseases   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CLARITHROMYCIN; LIQUID NITROGEN; OFLOXACIN; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID;

AGED; BIOFILM; CASE REPORT; CRYOTHERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN ULCER;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOFILMS; CLARITHROMYCIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOOT ULCER; HUMANS; MALE; OFLOXACIN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33745246572     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2006.01478.x     Document Type: Letter

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