Background: Inguinal hernia surgery is the most commonly performed surgery worldwide. Lichtenstein tension free repair using polypropylene mesh is the gold standard procedure for inguinal hernioplasty. Wound infection is the most common complication encountered in an surgical procedure. Antibiotic prophylaxis for open inguinal hernioplasty in minimizing wound infection has been a subject of deb...

The deoxyribonucleic acid of bacteriophages T2, T4, and T6 contains glucose linked to the hydroxymethyl groups of hydroxymethylcytosine. The work of Sinsheimer, Volkin, Jesaitis, and of Lichtenstein and Cohen (l-4) established the presence of glucosyl-hydroxymethylcytosine residues in the deoxyribonucleic acid and indicated that there is a characteristic glucose to hydroxymethylcytosine ratio f...