Surface bacteriology of venous leg ulcers and healing outcome

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 830-834

  Moore, Keith ^a   Hall, Val ^b   Paull, Alan ^b   Morris, Trefor ^b   Brown, Sarah ^c,d   McCulloch, Dorothy ^c   Richardson, Mark C ^c   Harding, Keith G ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c Smith and Nephew Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAEROCOCCUS VAGINALIS; ARCANOBACTERIUM HAEMOLYTICUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CORYNEBACTERIUM AQUATICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM BOVIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GENITALIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM JEIKEIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM PROPINQUUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM RENALE; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FINEGOLDIA MAGNA; GEMELLA MORBILLORUM; HELCOCOCCUS KUNZII; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEG ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROCOCCUS SEDENTARIUS; MORGANELLA MORGANII; PEPTONIPHILUS ASACCHAROLYTICUS; PEPTONIPHILUS HAREI; PEPTONIPHILUS INDOLICUS; PEPTONIPHILUS IVORII; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS ANAEROBIUS; PORPHYROMONAS ASACCHAROLYTICA; PORPHYROMONAS LEVII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCHLEIFERI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; COMPRESSION BANDAGES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77956934848     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.077032     Document Type: Article

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