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Surgical Site Infections and Compliance with Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Greek Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Anastasia Dimopoulou ,
Zoi Papanikolaou ,
Georgia Kourlaba ,
Ioannis Kopsidas ,
Susan Coffin  and
Theoklis Zaoutis
Anastasia Dimopoulou*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Surgery, “Aghia Sophia” Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece
Zoi Papanikolaou
Affiliation:
Second Department of Pediatrics, “Panagiotis and Aglaia Kyriakou” Children’s University Hospital, Athens, Greece
Georgia Kourlaba
Affiliation:
Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Collaborative Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
Ioannis Kopsidas
Affiliation:
Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Collaborative Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
Susan Coffin
Affiliation:
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Theoklis Zaoutis
Affiliation:
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
Department of Pediatric Surgery, “Aghia Sophia” Children’s Hospital, Thivon and Levadias Street, Athens, TX 115 26, Greece (natasa_dimo@hotmail.com).
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 11 , November 2014 , pp. 1425 - 1427
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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