Nanomesh dressings may draw bacteria from chronic wounds

We’ve previously heard about wound dressings that kill bacteria, but now researchers at Britain’s Swinburne University of Technology are taking a different approach. They’re creating a dressing material that attracts bacteria out from within the wound, so that the material and the microbes can then just be pulled off and discarded.

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This would be an alternative to the Medical maggots

CrazyNeutrino said:

This would be an alternative to the Medical maggots

No. The maggots clean up dead flesh.

roughbarked said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

This would be an alternative to the Medical maggots

No. The maggots clean up dead flesh.

ah, ok different application

CrazyNeutrino said:

Nanomesh dressings may draw bacteria from chronic wounds

… but now researchers at Britain’s Swinburne University of Technology are taking a different approach.
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I didn’t even know that Britain has a Swinburne University of Technology.

Funnily enough, neither does Google.

The Rev Dodgson said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Nanomesh dressings may draw bacteria from chronic wounds

… but now researchers at Britain’s Swinburne University of Technology are taking a different approach.
more..

I didn’t even know that Britain has a Swinburne University of Technology.

Funnily enough, neither does Google.

On second thoughts I suppose they meant the one in Melbourne, which is serviced by the Queen of Great Britain in her spare time.