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The Use of Mupirocin Before Skin Surgery
Author(s) -
Czarnecki D. B.,
Nash C. G.,
Bohl T. G.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-4362.1991.tb03858.x
Subject(s) - mupirocin , medicine , surgery , antibiotics , dermatology , surgical wound , staphylococcus aureus , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , bacteria , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , genetics
Presumed skin cancers were excised from 46 consecutive outpatients without antibiotic cover. A purulent wound developed in ten patients. Similar, but contaminated lesions were excised from 40 patients, but mupirocin ointment was used before surgery. Not one purulent wound developed out of 45 excisions.