Antibiotic prophylaxis for transrectal prostate biopsy--a new strategy--authors' response
Valeria Antsupova1, Magnus Arpi2
1Department of Clinical Microbiology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark valeria.antsupova@yahoo.dk.
The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
|November 28, 2014
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