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Evaluation of the bacterial diversity of pressure ulcers using bTEFAP pyrosequencing.
BMC medical genomics - 21 Sept 2010
Smith Drake M, Snow David E, Rees Eric, Zischkau Ann M, Hanson J Delton, Wolcott Randall D, Sun Yan, White Jennifer, Kumar Shashi, Dowd Scot E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Decubitus ulcers, also known as bedsores or pressure ulcers, affect millions of hospitalized patients each year. The microflora of chronic wounds such as ulcers most commonly exist in the biofilm phenotype and have been known to significantly impair normal healing trajectories. METHODS: Bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP), a universal bacterial identification method, was used to...
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