Redefining the Chronic-Wound Microbiome: Fungal Communities Are Prevalent, Dynamic, and Associated with Delayed Healing
Chronic nonhealing wounds have been heralded as a silent epidemic, causing significant morbidity and mortality especially in elderly, diabetic, and obese populations. Polymicrobial biofilms in the wound bed are hypothesized to disrupt the highly coordinated and sequential events of cutaneous healing...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2016-09-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/5/e01058-16 |