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PMID: 30348570 J Arthroplasty. 2019 Feb;34(2S):S105-S115. Epub 2018 Oct 19.
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General Assembly, Prevention, Operating Room Environment: Proceedings of International Consensus on Orthopedic Infections.

Arash Aalirezaie
Mustafa Akkaya
C Lowry Barnes
Francisco Bengoa
Murat Bozkurt
Kyle H Cichos
Elie Ghanem
Rabih O Darouiche
Andris Dzerins
Safa Gursoy
Sebastian Illiger
Joseph A Karam
Ianiv Klaber
Georgios Komnos
Christoph Lohmann
Everth Merida
Piret Mitt
Charles Nelson
Nilo Paner
J Manuel Perez-Atanasio
Mike Reed
Marshall Sangster
Daniel Schweitzer
Mehmet Emin Simsek
Brian M Smith
Greg Stocks
Peteris Studers
Darko Talevski
Juliane Teuber
Christopher Travers
Kelly Vince
Matthias Wolf
Koji Yamada
Kelly Vince
General Assembly, Prevention, Operating Room Environment: Proceedings of International Consensus on Orthopedic Infections.
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