Foaming Betadine Spray as a potential agent for non-labor-intensive preoperative surgical site preparation
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1476-0711
DOI: 10.1186/s12941-015-0076-2