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Trichophyton as a Rare Cause of Postoperative Wound Infection Resistant to Standard Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy

Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2018
Fungal infections are rare causes of acute surgical wound infections, but Candida is not an infrequent etiology in chronic wound infections. Trichophyton species is a common cause of tinea capitis but has not been reported as a cause of neurosurgical ...
Sheema Gaffar, John K. Birknes, Kenji M. Cunnion   +2 more
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The effect of triclosan coated sutures on rate of Surgical Site Infection after hip and knee replacement : a protocol for a double-blind randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2014
Background: 187,000 hip and knee joint replacements are performed every year in the National Health Service (NHS). One of the commonest complications is surgical site infection (SSI), and this represents a significant burden in terms of patient ...
Reed, Mike R., Parsons, Nicholas R., Andrew P Sprowson, Roland Pratt, Asaad, Seif, Kevin Emmerson, Seif Asaad, Scott Muller, Cyrus D Jensen, Nick Parsons, Pratt, Roland, Muller, Scott, Mike R Reed, Ian Carluke, Paul Partington, Jensen, Cyrus D., Partington, Paul, Carluke, Ian, Sprowson, Andrew P., Emmerson, Kevin   +19 more
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The application of the modified surgical wound dressing in wound care after tracheotomy

Regenerative Medicine Research, 2017
Introduction: This study was performed to observe the efficacy of a modified surgical wound dressing applied as part of decannulation wound care after tracheotomy.
Feng Mei, Wu Ying, Zhu Jing, Wu Xiaoling
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L-arginine: A unique amino acid for improving depressed wound immune function following hemorrhage [PDF]

, 2002
Objective: To determine whether L-arginine has any salutary effects on wound immune cell function following trauma-hemorrhage. Background. Depressed wound immune function contributes to an increased incidence of wound infections following hemorrhage ...
Hatz, Rudolf A., Chaudry, Irshad H., Nitsch, Stefan M., Rudolf A. Hatz, Peter Angele, Mathias W. Wichmann, Angele, Peter, Irshad H. Chaudry, Wichmann, Mathias W., Thomas Hernandez-Richter, Schildberg, Friedrich Wilhelm, Martin K. Angele, Stefan M. Nitsch, Schildberg, Friedrich W., Angele, Martin K., Hernandez-Richter, Thomas, Friedrich W. Schildberg   +16 more
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Transcutaneous compression suture with iodine gauze for wound closure in revision surgery for therapy-resistant periprosthetic shoulder infections

JSES International, 2023
Background: To successfully treat a periprosthetic infection, successful bacteria eradication and successful wound closure are mandatory. Despite adequate surgical débridement in the deep, persistence of wound drainage and subsequent persistence of ...
Florian Grubhofer, MD, Evan O’Donnell, MD, Lukas Ernstbrunner, MD, PhD, Ilker Uçkay, MD, Karl Wieser, MD   +4 more
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A clinical study of risk factors and the management of surgical site infections in general surgical cases at tertiary care center: A two-year observational study

Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2022
Background: Surgical site infections penetrate to depths in tissues and cause simple superficial infections to sepsis. The aim of this study is to identify the incidence rate of surgical site infections and their risk factors at the surgical section of a
C Arunkumar, R. Chinnapan
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The microbiome of diabetic foot ulcers: a comparison of swab and tissue biopsy wound sampling techniques using 16S rRNA gene sequencing

BMC Microbiology, 2020
Background Health-care professionals need to collect wound samples to identify potential pathogens that contribute to wound infection. Obtaining appropriate samples from diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) where there is a suspicion of infection is of high ...
J. Travis, M. Malone, H. Hu, A. Baten, K. Johani, F. Huygens, K. Vickery, K. Benkendorff   +7 more
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Epidemiology and Microbiology of Surgical Wound Infections [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2000
ABSTRACT This study included 676 surgery patients with signs and symptoms indicative of wound infections, who presented over the course of 6 years. Bacterial pathogens were isolated from 614 individuals. A single etiologic agent was identified in 271 patients, multiple agents were found in 343, and no agent was identified in 62 ...
A, Giacometti, O, Cirioni, A M, Schimizzi, M S, Del Prete, F, Barchiesi, M M, D'Errico, E, Petrelli, G, Scalise   +7 more
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Integrated bioinformatical and in vitro study on drug targets for liver cirrhosis based on unsupervised consensus clustering and immune cell infiltration

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023
Liver cirrhosis is one of the most common cause of death in the world. The progress of liver cirrhosis involves health, liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, leading to great challenges in the diagnosis of the disease.
Qingjia Chi, Qingjia Chi, Di Wang, Ting Sun, Hua-Ping Liang   +4 more
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Immunohistochemical monitoring of wound healing in antibiotic treated buruli ulcer patients [PDF]

, 2014
While traditionally surgery has dominated the clinical management of Buruli ulcer (BU), the introduction of the combination chemotherapy with oral rifampicin and intramuscular streptomycin greatly improved treatment and reduced recurrence rates.
Arianna Andreoli, Gerd Pluschke, Andreoli, Arianna, Sopoh, Ghislain Emmanuel, Marie-Thérèse Ruf, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, Peter Schmid, Ruf, Marie-Thérèse, Pluschke, Gerd, Schmid, Peter   +9 more
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