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In a series of 349 operations a single dose of 500 mg. of ampicillin was given immediately preoperatively to 164 patients selected at random. There was no significant reduction in the wound-infection rate in cases given ampicillin compared with the controls.
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Pollock et al. (1972) studied this question.
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