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Case Reports
. 1979 Jun;45(6):374-7.

Quantitative bacteriology in wound care

G Shulman, J A Petro, E H Hallgren
  • PMID: 378056
Case Reports

Quantitative bacteriology in wound care

G Shulman et al. Am Surg. 1979 Jun.

Abstract

Quantitative bacteriology in the management of wound sepsis provides an objective way to monitor the success or failure of wound care. The clinical appearance of a wound requiring skin grafting may be misleading. Grafting wounds that appeared clinically ready was unsuccessful when analysis showed bacteriological counts of 10(5) or greater organisms per gram of tissue. A rapid and simple method for quantitative tissue culture is described. Three cases are described illustrating the value of the results of the method.

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