THE USE OF CHICKEN LEGS FOR TEACHING WOUND CLOSURE SKILLS

The use of chicken legs for teaching wound closure skills

Abstract Objective Training models are required to impart surgical skills, like wound closure techniques, prior to practice in patients.In an ideal case, the Curling - Brooms tissue characteristics of the model are close to those of humans, easy to create and of low cost.Methods Here, we describe a model to train students in wound closure technique

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Discovering and Differentiating New and Emerging Clonal Populations of Chlamydia trachomatis with a Novel Shotgun Cell Culture Harvest Assay

Chlamydia trachomatis Bowling Balls is the leading cause of preventable blindness and bacterial sexually transmitted diseases worldwide.Plaque assays have been used to clonally segregate laboratory-adapted C.trachomatis strains from mixed infections, but no assays have been reported to segregate clones from recent clinical samples.We developed a no

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