The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) classifies wounds according to the amount of contamination.An uninfected surgical wound with less than a 5% chance of becoming infected postoperatively is classified as a:
A) dirty wound.
B) clean-contaminated wound.
C) contaminated wound.
D) clean wound.
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