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Reducing the Rate of Surgical Site Infections After Breast Surgery With the Use of Larger Volumes of 4% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Solution as Preoperative Antiseptic Showering
Published online by Cambridge University Press:
05 January 2017
Department of Internal Medicine, Riverside University Health System Medical, Center, Moreno Valley, CaliforniaDivision of Infectious Diseases, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
Hayley Lee
Affiliation:
Office of Research, Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Moreno Valley, California
Made Sutjita
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Moreno Valley, California
Karla Talavera
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Riverside University Health System Medical, Center, Moreno Valley, California
Glenn San-Agustin
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Riverside University Health System Medical, Center, Moreno Valley, California
Silvia Gnass
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control Department, Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Moreno Valley, California.
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Address correspondence to Jon Persichino, Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, 26520 Cactus Avenue, Moreno Valley, CA 92555 (j.persichino@ruhealth.org)
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