The effective period of preventive antibiotic action in experimental incisions and dermal lesions
Burke JF;;
surgery1961Vol. 50pp. -
323
jf1961surgerythe
Abstract
There is a definite short period when the developing staphylococcal dermal or incisional infection may be suppressed by antibiotics. This effective period begins the moment bacteria gain access to the tissue is over in 3 hours. Systemic antibiotics have no effect on primary staphylococcal infections …