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Chlorhexidine Is Better than Aqueous Povidone Iodine as Skin Antiseptic for Preventing Surgical Site Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Olivier Mimoz
Olivier Mimoz*
Affiliation:
Service d'Anesthésie Réanimation, CHU de Poitiers, Université de Poitiers, and INSERM U1070, Poitiers, France
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 9 , September 2012 , pp. 961 - 962
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012 

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