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Preoperative Prophylactic Antibiotics Brief Historical Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Richard P. Wenzel
Richard P. Wenzel*
Affiliation:
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , March 1993 , pp. 121
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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