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Surgery today · Jan 2009

Randomized Controlled Trial

Short-term intravenous antimicrobial prophylaxis in combination with preoperative oral antibiotics on surgical site infection and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in elective colon cancer surgery: results of a prospective randomized trial.

We performed a prospective randomized study to assess the effectiveness of short-term intravenous antimicrobial prophylaxis in combination with preoperative oral antibiotics on a surgical site and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in elective colon cancer surgery. ⋯ These findings suggest that short-term intravenous antimicrobial prophylaxis in combination with preoperative oral antibiotics may be successfully applied to colon cancer surgery that is generally performed in Japan.

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