Anti-Infective Efficacy of Silver-Coated Medical Prostheses
Open Access
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 29 (6), 1371-1377
- https://doi.org/10.1086/313561
Abstract
Medical prostheses constitute an indispensable component of modern health care. Like other approaches of medical intervention, the insertion of medical prosthesKeywords
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