Preventing Postoperative Infections
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Drugs
- Vol. 57 (2), 175-185
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00003495-199957020-00004
Abstract
Surgical site infections (SSI) remain a major source of postoperative morbidity. The preventive effect of antimicrobial drugs on postoperative infections is without debate. The common basis of...Keywords
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