Comparison of silver-coated dressing (Acticoat®), chlorhexidine acetate 0.5% (Bactigrass®) and nystatin for topical antifungal effect in Candida albicans-contaminated, full-skin-thickness rat burn wounds

Burns

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 882-885

  Acar, Ali ^a   Uygur, Fatih ^a   Diktaş, Hüsrev ^a   Evinç, Rahmi ^a   Ülkür, Ersin ^a   Öncül, Oral ^a   Görenek, Levent ^a  

^a GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Burn infection; Candida albicans; Wound dressing

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE ACETATE; NYSTATIN; SILVER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN DRESSING; BURN INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS CONTAMINATED FULL THICKNESS BURN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 79960404951     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2011.01.024     Document Type: Article

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