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Review
. 2008 Aug;17(8):333-41.
doi: 10.12968/jowc.2008.17.8.30796.

Biofilms and chronic wound inflammation

R D Wolcott  1 , D D Rhoads, S E Dowd
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Biofilms and chronic wound inflammation

R D Wolcott et al. J Wound Care. 2008 Aug.

Abstract

In contrast to the commonly accepted hypothesis of host-centred pathology, it is possible that surface bacteria, not host dysfunction, cause the chronicity and perpetual inflammation associated with chronic non-healing wounds.

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