Study of the efficacy of Coated VICRYL Plus® Antibacterial suture (coated Polyglactin 910 suture with Triclosan) in two animal models of general surgery

Journal of Infection

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-88

  Gomez Alonso A ^a   Garcia Criado F J ^a   Parreno Manchado F C ^a   Garcia Sanchez J E ^b   Garcia Sanchez E ^b   Parreno Manchado A ^a   Zambrano Cuadrado, Y ^a  

^a Medical School   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Surgical site infection; Triclosan; VICRYL Plus; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

POLYGLACTIN; SUTURE MATERIAL; TRICLOSAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENERAL SURGERY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AURICULARIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTIGENS, CD; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HYDROXYPROLINE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NF-KAPPA B; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PEROXIDASE; POLYGLACTIN 910; SUPEROXIDES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRICLOSAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33845570097     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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