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Inclusion Criteria:
ll patients enrolled must meet all the following criteria:
1. Patient with burn injury that meets all of the following requirements:
1. Occurred within the last 48 hours
2. Wound is thermal in nature
3. Partial-thickness burn (burn extends through the epidermis and may penetrate into
the dermis)
4. Total body surface area (TBSA) of burn(s) is 2-20% for all subjects
5. Burn area(s) located on smooth, flat surface
6. 2 burn areas, each with a minimum size of 16cm2 (burn areas may be two separate
burns or within one large burn, see Section 9.4.2)
2. Age = 12 months and = 70 years
Exclusion Criteria:
Subjects meeting any of the following criteria will be excluded:
1. Burns meeting any of the following criteria:
1. Mechanism of injury was electrical, radiation, chemical or frostbite
2. Wound is larger than 200 cm2
3. Clinically infected burn (as judged by the investigator)
4. Previous or planned treatment of the Burn Area(s) with any of the following:
- Biological Skin Substitutes (including Apligraf®, Dermagraft®, etc.)
2. Patient criteria that will make patient ineligible for enrollment:
1. Ventilator dependence
2. Active malignant disease or patient is less than 1 year disease-free
3. Use of immunosuppressive agents, radiation or chemotherapy within the past 30
days
4. Auto-immune disorders including Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Fibromyalgia,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
5. Presence of any condition (including current drug or alcohol abuse, medical or
psychiatric condition) that is likely to impair understanding of or compliance
with the study protocol in the judgment of the Investigator
6. Presence of any condition that is likely to compromise healing in the judgment of
the Investigator
7. Pregnancy at enrollment or within last 6 months, women who are breastfeeding, or
women of childbearing potential who are planning to become pregnant during the
time of the study OR are unwilling/unable to use acceptable methods of
contraception (birth control pills, barriers, or abstinence)
8. Patient has been on any investigational drug(s) or therapeutic device(s) in the
last 30 days or any previous enrollment in this study
3. Allergy or known sensitivity to any of the following:
1. Aminoglycosides such as gentamicin sulfate and/or streptomycin sulfate
2. Silver
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