Oral antibiotics and mechanical bowel preparation for colorectal surgery: A prospective observational study of surgical site infection and microbial analysis.

"raw sequence reads have been deposited in the ncbi sra database and can be accessed through the ncbi bioproject accession number prjna991438."

"Declarations Ethics approvalThis project was reviewed by the Joint Scientific Review Committee (Swansea Bay University Health Board and Swansea University) and local audit department who deemed the project to be service evaluation and non-research. Conflict of interestThe authors declare no competing interests. Conflict of interest The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open access funding provided by Umea University. Funding was provided by the Swedish Society of Medicine (SLS-934594), Cancer Research Foundation in Northern Sweden (AMP 19-978), Bengt Ihre’s Foundation (SLS-934603), and GI Research Fund, Swansea Bay Health Charity, Swansea Bay University Health Board, 1 Talbot Gateway, Port Talbot SA12 7BR, Registered Charity Number 1122805."