In vivo evaluation of bacterial infection involving morphologically different surgical meshes

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 133-137

  Engelsman, Anton F ^a   Van Dam, Gooitzen M ^a   Van Der Mei, Henny C ^a   Busscher, Henk J ^a   Ploeg, Rutger J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERSILENE; POLITEF; POLYESTER; POLYPROPYLENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MESH SLING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; ABDOMINAL WALL; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANIMALS; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; POLYPROPYLENES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 74049149172     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b61d9a     Document Type: Article

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