Use of 16S rRNA sequencing and quantitative PCR to correlate venous leg ulcer bacterial bioburden dynamics with wound expansion, antibiotic therapy, and healing

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 765-771

  Sprockett, Daniel D ^a   Ammons, Christine G ^b   Tuttle, Marie S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARVEDILOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; FUROSEMIDE; LISINOPRIL; PENTOXIFYLLINE; RNA 16S; VITAMIN D; WARFARIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC WOUND; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPRESSION BANDAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OCCLUSIVE DRESSING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; DEBRIDEMENT; DNA, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84945457363     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/wrr.12309     Document Type: Article

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