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Anna D'Souza

10-54% of long term care (LTC) facility patients have a chronic wound1. Often, infections develop in these wounds due to delays in detection of high bacterial loads. Delays are attributed...
01/28/2021
Abstract Body: Introduction: Evaluation of clinical signs and symptoms of infection is the current standard of care (SoC) for assessing bacterial colonization in wounds and is used to inf...
11/23/2020
Abstract Body: Introduction: Quantitative tissue biopsy, which provides colony counts per gram (CFU/g) is the gold standard to accurately measure bacterial load in wounds. However, the co...
11/23/2020
Abstract Body: International wound infection guidelines1 mandate that reduction of bacterial load is essential for effective wound infection management, done through cleaning, debridement...
11/23/2020