bacterial bioburden

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Use of Copper Nanoparticles to Reduce Bioburden in the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

12/07/2022

Weiying Lu, BS¹; Amit Rao, MD²; Alisha Oropallo, MD^1,2; Scott Gawlik, DPM³; John Haight, DPM³

Weiying Lu, BS1; Amit Rao, MD2; Alish...

A 63-year-old white man who has diabetes mellitus type 2 and coronary artery disease presented with a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) on the plantar aspect of the left foot.

A 63-year-old white man who has...

12/07/2022

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Superiority of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) over Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) Testing in Detecting Primary Pathogens of Polymicrobial Communities Found in Infected Chronic Foot Wounds

Chronic foot wounds, whether diabetic or nondiabetic, yield a multilayered, polymicrobial community of fast and slow growing aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, as well as fungus, yeast, and ...

11/27/2019