Investigation of Postoperative Allograft‐Associated Infections in Patients Who Underwent Musculoskeletal Allograft Implantation | Zendy

Christine Crawford | Zendy; Marion Kainer | Zendy; Daniel B. Jernigan | Zendy; Shailen N. Banerjee | Zendy; Carol Friedman | Zendy; Faruque Ahmed | Zendy; Lennox K. Archibald | Zendy

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Investigation of Postoperative Allograft‐Associated Infections in Patients Who Underwent Musculoskeletal Allograft Implantation

Author(s) -

Christine Crawford,

Marion Kainer,

Daniel B. Jernigan,

Shailen N. Banerjee,

Carol Friedman,

Faruque Ahmed,

Lennox K. Archibald

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/430911

Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , relative risk , confidence interval , retrospective cohort study , univariate analysis , aseptic processing , multivariate analysis

The rate at which allografts are used in surgical procedures has doubled in the United States during the past decade. In 2002, one outpatient surgical center (SC-X) identified a cluster of surgical site infections (SSIs) after anterior cruciate ligament reconstructive surgery (ACLRS). Therefore, we conducted an investigation to determine the extent of the outbreak and to identify risk factors.

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