The majority of US combat casualty soft-tissue wounds are not infected or colonized upon arrival or during treatment at a continental US military medical facility.

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Published in Am J Surg on October 01, 2010

Authors

Forest R Sheppard1, Paul Keiser, David W Craft, Fred Gage, Martin Robson, Trevor S Brown, Kyle Petersen, Stephanie Sincock, Matt Kasper, Jason Hawksworth, Doug Tadaki, Thomas A Davis, Alexander Stojadinovic, Eric Elster

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA. Forest.Sheppard@med.navy.mil

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