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Clinical identification of bacteria in human chronic wound infections: culturing vs. 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing

BACKGROUND: Chronic wounds affect millions of people and cost billions of dollars in the United States each year. These wounds harbor polymicrobial biofilm communities, which can be difficult to elucidate using culturing methods. Clinical molecular microbiological methods are increasingly being empl...

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Autores principales: Rhoads, Daniel D, Cox, Stephen B, Rees, Eric J, Sun, Yan, Wolcott, Randall D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23176603
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-321