Pharmaceutical composition comprising vanadium and/or salts thereof and its use to treat burns

摘要

The present invention relates to the use of multivalent transition elements and/or salts thereof in a pharmaceutical composition to inhibit bacterial or yeast growth. Especially bacterial Pseudomonas growth is inhibited by using said pharmaceutical composition comprising vanadium and/or a salt thereof. Said vanadium or a vanadium salt is incorporated in a pharmaceutical composition as an essential element whereupon this pharmaceutical is applied for instance to burn-wound patients or patients having ulcers like diabetic foot ulcers.