A second drug from the same manufacturer, cefazolin, one of the most commonly used antibiotics to prevent and treat surgical infections, is also in short supply in some areas.

Also based at the Infirmary was Sir Donald Douglas, who would use his research into surgical infection and wound healing to help design Ninewells Hospital.

Wittmann DH, Frommelt L. The efficacy of cefotaxime in gram-positive surgical infections.

Directed and calculated therapy of surgical infections with imipenem/cilastatin.

Wittmann DH: The Role of cefotaxime in the treatment of surgical infections.

Vorlesungen über chirurgische Infektionskrankheiten (Lectures on surgical infections; 1895)

With agony ended, surgery increased, and with it surgical infection and the horror of routine death from flesh rotting in the body.

Regional Infusion of drugs in the prevention and treatment of complex surgical infection / I. H. Gevorkian 136, [1] p. silt.

After the suggestion by Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister introduced the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic and reduced surgical infections rates.

A company that invents an antibiotic hopes to earn billions while the patent lasts by selling it in rich countries at high prices to cure everything from surgical infections to children's sore ears.