Lack of evidence for attributing chlorhexidine as the main active ingredient in skin antiseptics preventing surgical site infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 404-405

  Maiwald, Matthias ^a   Widmer, Andreas F ^b   Rotter, Manfred L ^c  

^a KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; POVIDONE IODINE;

ANTISEPSIS; DRUG FORMULATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LETTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ALCOHOLS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CHLORHEXIDINE; HUMANS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79251510336     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659253     Document Type: Letter

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