Antibiotic duration can be shortened in postoperative intra-abdominal infection

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Im-Kyung Kim et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Sep.

. 2018 Sep;10(Suppl 26):S3182-S3183.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.07.93.

¹ Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Korea.

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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Short-course antibiotic therapy for critically ill patients treated for postoperative intra-abdominal infection: the DURAPOP randomised clinical trial.
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