A Comparative Study and Assessment of Burn Wound Sepsis Using Surface Swab, Fine Needle Aspiration and Wound Biopsy Cultures

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a simple standardized fine needle aspiration method for bacteriologic assessment of burn wound and to determine whether this method is as reliable and useful as the classic invasive biopsy culture method1. Considering the high correlation with the organism i...

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Main Authors: Prema Dhanraj, Philip Korula, M K Lalitha, Sulochana Stanley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 1994-02-01
Series:Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0043-1776067