Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 571-584 , September 2008

Antibiotics and perioperative infections

  • Michael James, D.O., M.S. (Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine)
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  • Elizabeth A. Martinez, M.D., M.H.S (Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 410 955 9080; Fax: +1 410 955 8978.

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2008.05.001

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 571-584 , September 2008

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