Pre- and post-operative antibiotics in conjunction with cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) should be considered for pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) treatment

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA; Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA. Electronic address: douglas.merrell@usuhs.edu.
• ² Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA. Electronic address: mcavoy@umd.edu.
• ³ Department of Surgical Oncology, Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA.
• ⁴ Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA; Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, MD, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA.
• ⁷ University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Surgical Oncology, Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA. Electronic address: asardi@mdmercy.com.