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Comment: Infected Urine as a Risk Factor for Postprostatectomy Wound Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

John N. Krieger
John N. Krieger*
Affiliation:
Department of Urology, the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
*
Department of Urology RL-10, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 143 - 144
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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