Research article

Increased incidence of postoperative infections during prophylaxis with cephalothin compared to doxycycline in intestinal surgery

Gunnar Baatrup^1,²^*, Roy M Nilsen^3,⁴, Rune Svensen¹ and Per E Akselsen³

¹ Department of Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

² Institute of Surgery, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

³ Department of Infection Control, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

⁴ Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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BMC Surgery 2009, 9:17 doi:10.1186/1471-2482-9-17

Published: 7 December 2009

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Categorization of patients and procedure related variables. Table.

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SSI according to degree of severity, patient group and period of observation. Table.

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