Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery: does the past predict the future?
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Giorgio Zanetti and Richard Platt Service of Infectious Diseases and Division of Hospital Hygiene, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Eastern Massachusetts Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenter, and the HMO Research Network Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics, Boston, Massachusetts
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
دوره 38 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004