Interleukin-6 concentrations in wound fluids rather than serological markers are useful in assessing bacterial triggers of ulcer inflammation

International Wound Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-106

  Ambrosch, Andreas ^a   Lobmann, Ralf ^b   Pott, Andreas ^a   Preißler, Jǔrgen ^a  

^a StJoseph Hospital Bremerhaven   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial triggers of ulcer inflammation; Chronic ulcer; Diagnostic marker; IL 6; TNF

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULCER; WOUND FLUID; WOUND INFECTION;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 40749154368     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2007.00347.x     Document Type: Article

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