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Extra antibiotic doesn't reduce infection risk during surgery to fix complex fractures, trial finds

Adding an extra antibiotic powder doesn't further reduce a person's risk of infection during surgery to repair complex bone fractures, a new study says.

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Adding an extra antibiotic powder doesn't further reduce a person's risk of infection during surgery to repair complex bone fractures, a new study says. People had about the same rate of post-surgery infections whether doctors sprinkled one or two antibiotic powders into their surgical wound, researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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