Aerobic and Anaerobic Bacteriology of Wounds and Cutaneous Abscesses
Itzhak Brook;Edith H. Frazier;
archives of surgery1990Vol. 125pp. 1445-1451
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Abstract
• The aerobic and anaerobic microbiologic characteristics of 584 wounds and 676 skin or soft-tissue abscesses were studied and correlated with the infection site. In wounds, aerobic or facultative bacteria only were present in 223 specimens (38%), anaerobes only in 177 specimens (30%), and mixed flora in 184 specimens (32%)....