The epidemiology of chest and leg wound infections following cardiothoracic surgery.

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Clinical Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  1996-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/CLINIDS/22.3.424PMID 8852957
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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