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Surgical site infection rates among propensity matched cohorts of patients who either did or did not receive oral non-absorbable antibiotics at the time of mechanical bowel preparation prior to elective colon surgery. Patients that received oral antibiotics were observed to have significantly lower rates of organ space infections, superficial surgical site infection, and overall surgical site infection rates.
