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Wound Infection Rates Following Clean Operative Procedures: Can We Assume Them To Be Low?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Ronald Lee Nichols
Ronald Lee Nichols*
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
*
1430 Tulane Ave., Dept. of Surgery New Orleans, LA 70112
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Editorial
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 8 , August 1992 , pp. 455 - 456
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992 

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