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Surgical Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Is the Glass Half Empty or More than 99% Full?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Deverick J. Anderson  and
Daniel J. Sexton
Deverick J. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; and Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina
Daniel J. Sexton
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; and Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina
*
DUMC Box 102359, Durham, NC 27710 (deverick.anderson@duke.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , March 2014 , pp. 240 - 242
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014

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