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How long for symptoms of wound infection to appear?
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Wound infection: This is quite variable: it can be fairly immediate to many weeks. Your question is complicated by the lack of strict adherence or even a consensus for what constitutes an infection. We have bacteria all over our body; and certainly there is bacteria in wounds. But whether colonization or actual infection is involved can be quite variable from one clinician to the next.
Answered 5/18/2012
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