Successful treatment of chronically infected wounds with sugar paste

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Tanner AG. Owen ER. Seal DV. x European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. [JC:em5] x 7(4):524-5, 1988 Aug. x A sugar and polyethylene glycol paste is introduced which has marked x antimicrobial activity and is available in thick and thin forms. The paste x was used to treat 20 patients with chronically infected abdominal and x perineal wounds that had failed to respond to conventional forms of x treatment. Complete healing was achieved in 19 patients. The paste was x especially effective in the treatment of large abscess cavities with small x external openings. It was inexpensive, and easy and painless to apply. x