Quantitative bacteriology in wound care.
Quantitative bacteriology in the management of wound sepsis provides an objective way to monitor the success or failure of wound care. The clinical appearance of a wound requiring skin grafting may be misleading. Grafting wounds that appeared clinically ready was unsuccessful when analysis showed bacteriological counts of 10(5) or greater organisms per gram of tissue. A rapid and simple method for quantitative tissue culture is described. Three cases are described illustrating the value of the results of the method.
D000368:Aged; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000382:microbiology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000601:surgery