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The affect of pH and bacterial phenotypic state on antibiotic efficacy.
International wound journal - 1 Aug 2012
Thomas John, Linton Sara, Corum Linda, Slone Will, Okel Tyler, Percival Steven L
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Antibiotics are routinely used in woundcare for the treatment of local and systemic infections. Our goals in this paper were to (i) evaluate the antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria isolated from burn and chronic wounds and (ii) evaluate the effect of pH and bacterial phenotype on the efficacy of antibiotics. Chronic and burn wound isolates, which had been routinely isolated from patients at West Virginia...
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