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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 +2 more
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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 +4 more
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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 +3 more
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Clinical Outcome of Non-occlusive Versus Occlusive Dressing in Postoperative Sutured Wounds [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017 Introduction: The main objective of dressing wounds is to prevent wound infections. Successful wound management depends on an understanding of the healing process combined with knowledge of the properties of the various dressings available.
Dinesh Kumar, Amol Daniel
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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 +8 more
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REDUCTION OF POSTOPERATIVE WOUND INFECTION AFTER APPENDECTOMY BY PERITONEAL CLOSURE AND WOUND IRRIGATION WITH NORMAL SALINE [PDF]
Basrah Journal of Surgery, 2012 The most common complication following appendectomy is postoperative wound infection and since it has major effects on patient’s health & recovery and on the health system as it consumes time and essential resources so from this fact came the importance ...
Ahmad Jaleel Abdul-Razzak +1 more
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Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2017 Introduction: The Management of postoperative pain after abdominal surgery is a major challenge to the anesthesiologist. The optimization of postoperative analgesia improves prognosis contributing also to patient satisfaction and reducing morbidity and ...
Rita Araújo +11 more
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Wearable Sensors for the Detection of Biomarkers for Wound Infection
Biosensors, 2021 Infection represents a major complication that can affect wound healing in any type of wound, especially in chronic ones. There are currently certain limitations to the methods that are used for establishing a clinical diagnosis of wound infection. Thus,
Alexandra Pusta +3 more
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Coverage of the infected wound
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1983 Fifty-four consecutive patients with chronic wounds were identified by the following criteria: (1) established infection for 6 months, (2) exposure of bone, mediastinum, or other vital structure, (3) mechanical and/or vascular limitations to delayed closure techniques, (4) no response to wound debridement in prolonged antibiotic therapy.
S J, Mathes, L J, Feng, T K, Hunt
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Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: The most alarming post-operative consequences for patients and doctors are wound infection and dehiscence. Post-operative wound infection and dehiscence lengthen the hospital stay after surgery.
Mukesh Kumar P +4 more
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