The role of micro-organisms and biofilms in dysfunctional wound healing

Advanced Wound Repair Therapies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 39-76

  Thomas, J G ^a,b   Motlagh, H ^a   Povey, S B ^c   Percival, S L ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

"critical colonization climax community," chronic or non healing wounds; "ping pong" infection; Anti Koch; Biofilms or sessile communities; Microbial staging or growth cycle: I IV; Planktonic phenotype vs. biofilm phenotype: a biomarker; Probiotics in wound care; Ratio: biofilm to planktonic phenotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902067038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857093301.1.39     Document Type: Chapter

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