title: Should we advise patients with sutures not to swim?
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, Cork University Hospital, Ireland.
authors.forename: Katherine M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Browne
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Bon Secour Hospital, College Road, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Olive
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, Cork University Hospital, Ireland.
authors.forename: A James P
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Clover
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011184:Postoperative Period; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013537:Sutures; D013550:Swimming; D035501:Uncertainty; D014871:Water Microbiology