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Trial Finds Giving More Antibiotics To Prevent Joint Replacement Infections Doesn't Help

nfections are currently costing Australian hospitals over $21,000 per infection. Cefazolin is the drug that is used as an antibiotic at the time of surgery to prevent or “golden Staph.”)

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