Chlorhexidine-Alcohol versus Povidone-Iodine for Surgical-Site Antisepsis.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  New England Journal of Medicine

• Publication date

  2010-01-28

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1056/NEJMoa0810988PMID 20054046
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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