Urinary tract infections in primary biliary cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 743-746

  O'Donohue, J ^a   Workman, M R ^a   Rolando, N ^a   Yates, M ^a   Philpott Howard, J ^a   Williams, R ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIURIA; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORPHOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030668036     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01709256     Document Type: Article

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