Evaluation of the bacterial diversity among and within individual venous leg ulcers using bacterial tag-encoded FLX and Titanium amplicon pyrosequencing and metagenomic approaches |
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| Authors: | Randall D Wolcott Viktoria Gontcharova Yan Sun and Scot E Dowd |
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| Institution: | (1) Southwest Regional Wound Care Clinic, Lubbock, TX 79410, USA;(2) Medical Biofilm Research Institute, Lubbock, TX 79407, USA;(3) Research and Testing Laboratory of the South Plains, Lubbock, TX 79407, USA |
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| Abstract: | Background Approximately 1 out of every 100 individuals has some form of venous insufficiency, which can lead to chronic venous disease
and Venous Leg Ulcer (VLU). There are known underlying pathologies which contribute to the chronic nature of VLU including
biofilm phenotype infections. |
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