Galland R B, Saunders J H, Mosley J G, Darrell J H
Lancet. 1977 Nov 19;2(8047):1043-5. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(77)91880-3.
The wound-infection rate after abdominal operations was compared in 113 patients randomly allocated to an untreated control group, a group receiving preoperative lincomycin and tobramycin, or a group receiving local instillation of povidone-iodine. The wound-infection rate was 8.1% in 37 patients receiving antibiotics, 42.1% in 38 untreated controls, and 39.5% in 38 patients in the povidone-iodine group.
