Chronic wound colonization, infection, and biofilms

Abstract

The recognition of bacterial biofilm in chronic wounds is from 2008. The Best Practice treatment of chronic wounds seems to have developed a way of coping with biofilm without recognizing its presence with means like debridement and excessive fluid removal. The recognition of bacterial biofilm in chronic wounds may give us the opportunity to explain many of the characteristics of the chronic wound. It may explain why chronic wounds do not heal despite adequate treatment of underlying condition and give hope for future effective ways of treatment. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.