A prospective study of the microbiology of chronic venous leg ulcers to reevaluate the clinical predictive value of tissue biopsies and swabs

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-22

  Davies, Charlotte E ^a   Hill, Katja E ^a   Newcombe, Robert G ^a   Stephens, Phil ^a   Wilson, Melanie J ^a   Harding, Keith G ^a   Thomas, David W ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG ULCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND; WOUND ASSESSMENT; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND SWAB;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33846426089     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2006.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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