| Abstrakt: |
Bacteriologic studies in Italy and elsewhere1 during the late war have confirmed the presence of diverse bacteria in war wounds. As part of a study of penicillin therapy in the management of wounds in Italy a total of 214 types of bacteria were isolated from 27 infected and 9 clinically clean wounds.2 The decidedly anaerobic environment of the bacteria in these traumatic injuries was emphasized by the fact that 45.3 per cent, or 97 of the 214 isolates, representing several genera, were obligatory anaerobes and 15.9 per cent, or 34 cultures, namely streptococci and micrococci, were microaerophiles. Eleven defined and 5 arbitrary groups were represented. From 8 to 10 species or types were recovered from 10 of the infected wounds, at least 5 from 21 and no less than 3 species or types were recovered from any 1 of the infected wounds. The clean wounds differed from the |
