Medical grade honey: Hope for wounded white rhinos

Highlights • Rhinos are endangered by poachers, often resulting in severe wounds or death.• Limited data on wound management in wildlife exists.• Medical grade honey exerts strong antimicrobial and healing properties.• Medical grade honey can improve wound healing and survival of rhinos.• The manuscript covers extensive literature data to support the clinical findings.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Veterinary and Animal Science

• Publication date

  2021-08-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.vas.2021.100196PMID 34471724PMCID 8390769
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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