First Evidence of Sternal Wound Biofilm following Cardiac Surgery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Elgharably, Haytham ^a,b   Mann, Ethan ^a   Awad, Hamdy ^a   Ganesh, Kasturi ^a,b   Ghatak, Piya Das ^a,b   Gordillo, Gayle ^a,b   Sai Sudhakar, Chittoor B ^a   Roy, Sashwati ^a,b   Wozniak, Daniel J ^a   Sen, Chandan K ^a,b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM AGGREGATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; GRAM STAINING; HEART SURGERY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STERNAL WIRE; STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOFILMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC SURGERY; TOBRAMYCIN;

EID: 84881019339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070360     Document Type: Article

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