Infection in conflict wounded
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Infection in conflict wounded.
Although mechanisms of modern military wounding may be distinct from those of ancient conflicts, the infectious sequelae of ballistic trauma and the evolving microbial flora of war wounds remain a considerable burden on both the injured combatant and their deployed medical systems. Battlefield surgeons of ancient times favoured suppuration in war wounding and as such Galenic encouragement of pu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0225