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Relationship Between Staphylococcus aureus Carriage and Surgical Site Infections Following Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in the South Asian Population: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections following total hip or knee arthroplasties have a reported rate of 0.49%-2.5% and can cause significant morbidity as well as tripling the cost of health care expenses. Both methicillin sensitive and methicillin resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus surgical...

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Autores principales: Mufarrih, Syed H, Qureshi, Nada Q, Sadruddin, Anum, Hashmi, Pervaiz, Mahmood, Syed Faisal, Zafar, Afia, Noordin, Shahryar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6283255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29875091
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/10219