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Infected Urine and Suprapubic Prostatectomy: The Urological Equivalent of ‘Dirty and Infected’ Surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Bruce H. Hamory
Bruce H. Hamory*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, The Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
*
Pennsylvania State University, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 145 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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