DaCosta lab publishes new research article: “Improved detection of clinically relevant wound bacteria using autofluorescence image-guided sampling in diabetic foot ulcers”
https://dacostalab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/iwj12717-fig-0001-m-1030x856.jpg 1030 856 DaCosta Lab DaCosta Lab https://dacostalab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/iwj12717-fig-0001-m-1030x856.jpgAbstract Clinical wound assessment involves microbiological swabbing of wounds to identify and quantify bacterial species, and to determine microbial susceptibility to antibiotics. The Levine swabbing technique may be suboptimal because it samples only the wound bed, missing other diagnostically relevant areas of the wound, which may contain clinically significant bacteria. Thus, there is a clinical…
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