Preventing Surgical Site Infections
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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: Clinical Medicine & Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1539-4182,1554-6179
DOI: 10.3121/cmr.2.2.115