Medical honey for wound carestill the latest resort

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-173

  Simon, Arne ^a   Traynor, Kirsten ^b   Santos, Kai ^a   Blaser, Gisela ^a   Bode, Udo ^a   Molan, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Bienenkunde Celle   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Medical honey; MRSA; Wound care

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; CATHETER INFECTION; GINGIVITIS; HONEY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEPTOSPERMUM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEWBORN INFECTION; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 65249178418     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nem175     Document Type: Note

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