Preventing Surgical Site Infections: Is It Just Too Sweet? Reply
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Preventing surgical site infections.
Over the past 50 years, increased interest in the discipline of surgical infection has resulted in advances in post-surgical infection control. Early investigations focused on the importance of anaerobic microflora to postoperative infection and paved the way for significant improvements in prophylactic and therapeutic antibiotic treatment of surgical patients. Later research centered on the id...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Surgery
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0364-2313,1432-2323
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-011-1067-x