The impact of noncontact, nonthermal, low-frequency ultrasound on bacterial counts in experimental and chronic wounds

Ostomy Wound Management

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-30

  Serena, Thomas ^a,g   Lee, S Kwon ^b,c   Lam, Kan ^d   Attar, Paul ^d   Meneses, Patricio ^e   Ennis, William ^f  

^a Serena Group Wound Hyperbaric and Research Centers   (United States)

^b University Hospitals Bedford Medical Center

^c Ohio Wound Management Service   (United States)

^d Bridge PTS   (United States)

^e St James Hospital   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^g Penn North Centers for Advanced Wound Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BANDAGE; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN CARE; SWINE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BANDAGES; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; SKIN CARE; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 59149101756     PISSN: 08895899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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