A novel titanium wound chamber for the study of wound infections in pigs

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 279-285

  Steinstraesser, Lars ^a   Vranckx, Jan J ^b   Mohammadi Tabrisi, Ali ^a   Jacobsen, Frank ^a   Mittler, Dominik ^a   Lehnhardt, Marcus ^a   Langer, Stefan ^a   Kühnen, Cornelius ^a   Gatermann, Soren ^a   Steinau, Hans U ^a   Eriksson, Elof ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; MINIPIG; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; WOUND FLUID; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; TITANIUM; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33748071128     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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