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Staphylococcal biofilms are the prominent cause of chronic wound infection and antibiotic resistance. It acts as a reservoir for bacteria, making healing difficult. Biofilm infections increase hospital stays cost to patients. The current study explores phenotypic genotypic detection S. aureus biofilm from traumatic wounds their association with A prospective observational was conducted April 20...

Stephanie Spellers’ The Church Cracked Open should be required reading for every Episcopalian and Christian who seeks to follow the liberative, loving, compassionate, pastoral, prophetic way of Jesus. “cracking open” church our lives, however painful traumatic, can leveraged good, as it allows structural injustices spiritual wounds aided abetted by dominant forms uncovered, examined, possibly h...

Introduction. Leg conquassation caused by petrol tiller is one of the most severe injuries in bone and joint traumatology. Firm strokes sharp blades produce strong force that easily damages both soft tissues bones. Since tillers are used soil processing, wounds highly contaminated with dirt fertilizers, hence anaerobic spore-forming bacilli, such as tetanus gas gangrene pathogens. Case report. ...

BACKGROUND Nonhealing wounds are a major, functionally-limiting medical problem impairing quality of life for millions of people each year. Various studies report complete wound epithelialization of 48 to 56% over 30 to 65 d with different treatment modalities including ultrasound, topical rPDGF-BB, and composite acellular matrix. This is in contrast to comparison control patients treated with ...

OBJECTIVES Traumatic wounds and surgery inherently have their complications. Localized infections, wound dehiscence, and excessive wound leakage can be devastating to the patient with a prolonged recovery, but it is also costly to the hospital with an increased length of stay, extra workload, and dressing changes. The single use PICO (Smith and Nephew Healthcare, Hull, United Kingdom) negative ...