Medical honey in professional wound care

Expert Review of Dermatology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-56

  Biglari, Bahram ^a   Swing, Tyler ^b   Büchler, Axel ^b   Ferbert, Thomas ^b   Simon, Arne ^c   Schmidmaier, Gerhard ^b   Moghaddam, Arash ^b  

^a Department of Paraplegia Technical Orthopedics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

medical grade honey; methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; ready to use honey; wound care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; DEFENSIN; DEFENSIN 1; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; METHYLGLYOXAL; OXACILLIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTISEPSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOFILM; BURN; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HONEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LEPTOSPERMUM; LEPTOSPERMUM SCOPARIUM; MEDICAL HONEY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; ORAL MUCOSITIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TINEA CORPORIS; TINEA CRURIS; TINEA VERSICOLOR; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND FLUID; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84873478853     PISSN: 17469872     EISSN: 17469880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/edm.12.66     Document Type: Review

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