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Surgical wound infection.

Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi, 2020
OBJECTIVE: To review the risk factors for surgical wound infection; the use of prophylactic antibiotics in the prevention of wound infection; and the benefits of wound surveillance programmes to reduce the rate of surgical wound infection.
P. Nandi, S. S. SOUNDARA RAJAN, K. Mak, S. C. Chan, Y. P. So   +4 more
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Nanomaterials in Wound Healing and Infection Control

Antibiotics, 2021
Wounds continue to be a serious medical concern due to their increasing incidence from injuries, surgery, burns and chronic diseases such as diabetes. Delays in the healing process are influenced by infectious microbes, especially when they are in the ...
A. Pormohammad, N. Monych, Sougata Ghosh, Diana L. Turner, R. Turner   +4 more
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Biofilm exacerbates antibiotic resistance: Is this a current oversight in antimicrobial stewardship?

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2020
Objective To raise awareness of the role of environmental biofilm in the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance and its consideration in antimicrobial stewardship. Background Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health.
Philip Bowler, Christine Murphy, Randall Wolcott   +2 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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Bacteriophages, a New Therapeutic Solution for Inhibiting Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Causing Wound Infection: Lesson from Animal Models and Clinical Trials

Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 2020
Wound infection kills a large number of patients worldwide each year. Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are the most important colonizing pathogens of wounds that, with various virulence ...
Majid Taati Moghadam, Amin Khoshbayan, Z. Chegini, Iman Farahani, A. Shariati   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Developing a real time sensing system to monitor bacteria in wound dressings [PDF]

, 2012
Infection control is a key aspect of wound management strategies. Infection results in chemical imbalances and inflammation in the wound and may lead to prolonged healing times and degradation of the wound surface.
Bowler, Brown, Cady, Clement, Costerton, Dobson, Eden, Firstenberg-Eden, Giaever, Gupta, James, Kell, Kingsley, Lazcka, Levine, Lind, McColl, Percival, Richards, Rigaud, Rothermel, Rowley, Schierle, Schultz, Silver, Smith, Sopwith, Thomas, Ur, Weber, Whulanza   +30 more
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Virulence factors and clonal diversity of Staphylococcus aureus in colonization and wound infection with emphasis on diabetic foot infection

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2020
Foot ulcer is a common complication in diabetic subjects and infection of these wounds contributes to increased rates of morbidity and mortality. Diabetic foot infections are caused by a multitude of microbes and Staphylococcus aureus, a major nosocomial
K. Shettigar, T. S. Murali
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Risk factors for wound infection in surgery for spinal metastasis [PDF]

, 2015
Wound infection rates are generally higher in patients undergoing surgery for spinal metastasis. Risk factors of wound infection in these patients are poorly understood.
A Grzegorzewska, AF Pull ter Gunne, D. van Popta, H Majeed, H Pascal-Moussellard, I McPhee, I. Siddique, IA Omeis, J Wise, J. Stephenson, KA Greene, N Sarhill, R. R. Verma, R. Rodrigues-Pinto, S Boriani, S Demura, S Dickhaut, S. Kumar, S. Mohammad   +18 more
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Humidified Warmed CO2 Treatment Therapy Strategies Can Save Lives With Mitigation and Suppression of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: An Evidence Review

Frontiers in Medicine, 2020
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has presented enormous challenges for healthcare, societal, and economic systems worldwide. There is an urgent global need for a universal vaccine to cover all SARS-CoV-2 mutant strains to stop the current ...
Alaa M. M. El-Betany, Enas M. Behiry, Mark Gumbleton, Keith G. Harding   +3 more
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A Host-Directed Approach to the Detection of Infection in Hard-to-Heal Wounds

Diagnostics, 2022
Wound infection is traditionally defined primarily by visual clinical signs, and secondarily by microbiological analysis of wound samples. However, these approaches have serious limitations in determining wound infection status, particularly in early ...
Michael Burnet, Daniel G. Metcalf, Scarlet Milo, Clemens Gamerith, Andrea Heinzle, Eva Sigl, Kornelia Eitel, Marieke Haalboom, Philip G. Bowler   +8 more
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