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. 2025 May 28;22(6):e70678. doi: 10.1111/iwj.70678
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PubMed

(‘Wounds and Injuries’[MeSH] OR ‘Diabetic ulcer’ OR ‘chronic wound’ OR ‘Pressure Ulcer’[MeSH] OR ‘infected wound*’ OR ‘non‐healing wound*’ OR ‘chronic wound*’) AND

(‘Autofluorescence Imaging’ OR ‘fluorescence imaging’ OR ‘fluorescence‐guided imaging’ OR ‘MolecuLight’ OR ‘point‐of‐care imaging’ OR ‘optical imaging’ OR ‘PRODIGI’) AND

(‘Bacteria’[MeSH] OR ‘Bacterial Infection’ OR ‘microbial detection’ OR ‘bacterial burden’ OR ‘colony‐forming unit*’) AND

(‘sensitivity’ OR ‘specificity’ OR ‘diagnostic accuracy’ OR ‘positive predictive value’ OR ‘negative predictive value’)

EMBASE

(‘wound’/exp. OR ‘chronic wound’/exp. OR ‘diabetic ulcer’/exp. OR ‘venous ulcer’/exp. OR ‘pressure ulcer’/exp. OR ‘infected wound*’ OR ‘non‐healing wound*’) AND

(‘autofluorescence imaging’/exp. OR ‘fluorescence imaging’/exp. OR ‘moleculight’ OR ‘point‐of‐care imaging’ OR ‘optical imaging’/exp. OR ‘prodigi’) AND

(‘bacterium’/exp. OR ‘bacterial infection’/exp. OR ‘bacterial burden’/exp. OR ‘colony‐forming unit*’) AND

(‘sensitivity’/exp. OR ‘specificity’/exp. OR ‘diagnostic accuracy’/exp. OR ‘positive predictive value’/exp. OR ‘negative predictive value’/exp)

Cochrane CENTRAL (‘Wound*’ AND (‘autofluorescence’ OR ‘fluorescence imaging’ OR ‘MolecuLight’ OR ‘optical imaging’) AND(‘bacteria’ OR ‘bacterial detection’ OR ‘bacterial burden’))
EBSCOhost (CINAHL Plus)

(‘Wound*’ OR ‘chronic wound*’ OR ‘diabetic ulcer*’ OR ‘pressure ulcer*’ OR ‘non‐healing wound*’ OR ‘infected wound*’) AND

(‘autofluorescence imaging’ OR ‘fluorescence imaging’ OR ‘MolecuLight’ OR ‘point‐of‐care imaging’ OR ‘optical imaging’) AND

(‘bacteria’ OR ‘bacterial burden’ OR ‘microbial detection’ OR ‘colony‐forming unit*’) AND

(‘sensitivity’ OR ‘specificity’ OR ‘diagnostic accuracy’ OR ‘positive predictive value’ OR ‘negative predictive value’)

Scopus

TITLE‐ABS‐KEY (‘wound*’ OR ‘chronic wound*’ OR ‘diabetic ulcer*’ OR ‘pressure ulcer*’ OR ‘infected wound*’ OR ‘non‐healing wound*’) AND

(‘autofluorescence imaging’ OR ‘fluorescence imaging’ OR ‘MolecuLight’ OR ‘point‐of‐care imaging’ OR ‘optical imaging’) AND

(‘bacteria’ OR ‘bacterial burden’ OR ‘bacterial detection’ OR ‘colony‐forming unit*’) AND

(‘sensitivity’ OR ‘specificity’ OR ‘diagnostic accuracy’ OR ‘positive predictive value’ OR ‘negative predictive value’)

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