A biodegradable antibiotic-impregnated scaffold to prevent osteomyelitis in a contaminated in vivo bone defect model

Open fractures are at risk of serious infection and, if infected, require several surgical interventions and courses of systemic antibiotics. We investigated a new injectable formulation that simultaneously hardens in vivo to form a porous scaffold for bone repair and delivers antibiotics at high co...

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Main Authors: McLaren, Jane S., White, L.J., Cox, H.C., Ashraf, Waheed, Rahman, C.V., Blunn, G.W., Goodship, A.E., Quirk, R.A., Shakesheff, Kevin M., Bayston, Roger, Scammell, Brigitte E.
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Published: AO Foundation 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32295/