The effect of washing with chlorhexidine soap on wound infection rate in general surgery. A controlled clinical study.
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Summary
Postoperative wound infections in clean surgery were studied to compare the effect of preoperative whole body disinfection with chlorhexidine soap with that of local washing and no washing at all, respectively.
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- article
- Published
- 1987-01-01
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- 57
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Keywords
Medicine, Chlorhexidine, Wound infection, Surgery, Infection rate
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