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Studies
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| download/studi/Friberg Journal of hospital infection.pdf |
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| download/studi/Studio Istituto di igiene Parma.pdf |
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| download/studi/Test results Karolinska 2005.pdf |
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| download/studi/Reduction of infection with Toul Laminar Airflow.pdf |
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| download/studi/Referenzbrief Plastische Chirurgie Stockholm.pdf |
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| download/studi/Reduction of infection rate with Toul Uppsala 2005.pdf |
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| download/studi/Reduction of infection with Toul.pdf |
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Every healthy person has millions of bacteria living on the skin surface and on the mucous membranes of his / her nose, mouth, and bowels. We spread continually these bacteria in the environment around us. These bacteria do not cause any problems to us in our everyday lives. Yet, these bacteria cause the majority of our postoperative infections
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The most important contamination of our environment is by bacteria that travel on small skin scales (the mean size is 12 microns = thousandths of millimeter) in the air of the operation room and sediment as an invisible dust on all surfaces in the operation room as long as people are staying there.
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The absolute majority of postoperative wound infections after total hip and knee replacements is caused by bacteria that landed in the operation wound during the total joint surgery
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