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Perioperative rifampin/trimethoprim in cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery

Comments on the paper by B. C. Walters et al., published in Child's Nerv Syst (1992) 8:253–257

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Raimondi, A.J. Perioperative rifampin/trimethoprim in cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery. Child's Nerv Syst 8, 417–418 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00304792

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