Diabetic foot infections: A need for innovative assessments

International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-36

  Fisher, Timothy K ^a   Wolcott, Randall ^b   Wolk, Donna M ^a   Bharara, Manish ^a   Kimbriel, Heather R ^a   Armstrong, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Southwest Regional Wound Care Center Lubbock   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Diabetic foot infection; Innovations

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; PEPTIDE; RIBOSOME DNA;

AGAR MEDIUM; BIOFILM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIABETIC FOOT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT INFECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND HEALING;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOFILMS; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETIC FOOT; DNA, BACTERIAL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77952484694     PISSN: 15347346     EISSN: 15526941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534734610363459     Document Type: Review

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