title: Quantitative microbiology of traumatic orthopedic wounds.
abstract: Quantitative bacterial and fungal cultures carried out on 116 speciments of tissue debrided from traumatic orthopedic wounds yielded 118 bacterial and 8 fungal isolates. The organisms obtained reflected primarily the resident flora of the skin.
mesh_terms: D000332:Aerobiosis; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005121:Extremities / Q000293:injuries*; D005658:Fungi / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D013045:Species Specificity; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000601:surgery