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Wounds International · 2015
Lauchli, S., Swanson, T., Serena, T., & Harding, K.
Wounds International, Vol 6, Issue 3 (2015), p22
This clinical practice article explains how bacteria in chronic wounds can shift into a harmful state marked by the production of bacterial proteases, and why this is hard to recognize from clinical signs or microbiology alone. It describes WOUNDCHEK Bacterial Status, a rapid point-of-care swab test for bacterial protease activity that was still in development, and proposes a care pathway using the test to guide efforts to reduce bacterial burden in non-healing wounds without obvious infection. The authors state that further research is needed to establish the test's role in chronic wound management.
Co-authored by Dr. Thomas Serena, SerenaGroup's founder.
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