title: Researches in orthopedic wound infection.
abstract: The roles of personnel, clean air, and the patient in the contamination of clean orthopedic wounds have been investigated over a three-year period. Personnel control showed striking decreases in operative infection rates. Wound cultures failed to show specific routes of infection. Microspheres were useful tracers for contamination of a clean air operating room and indicated that residual wound contamination occurred from surgical personnel or from the patient's skin.
mesh_terms: D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D009873:Operating Rooms; D009985:Orthopedics; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*