Quantitation of bacteria in clean, nonhealing, chronic wounds

Wounds

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Ratliff, Catherine R ^a   Getchell White, Sandra I ^a   Rodeheaver, George T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

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