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Bacteria and Antibiotics in Wound Healing

Michael D Caldwell1

  • 1Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Tissue Repair, Marshfield Clinic, 1000 North Oak Avenue, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA.

The Surgical Clinics of North America
|July 19, 2020
PubMed

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