Microbiological quality of water and dialysate in all haemodialysis centres of Greece

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 949-954

  Arvanitidou, Malamatenia ^b   Spaia, Sophia ^a   Katsinas, Christos ^a   Pangidis, Panayotis ^a   Constantinidis, Theodore ^b   Katsouyannopoulos, Vassilios ^b   Vayonas, George ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bacterial contamination; Coliforms; Haemodialysis; Pseudomonas spp.; Quality of water treatment; Streptococci

Indexed keywords

DIALYSIS FLUID; TAP WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSATE; DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; FECES MICROFLORA; GREECE; HEMODIALYSIS; MEMBRANE FILTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; STREPTOCOCCUS; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA; HUMANS; RENAL DIALYSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0031926279     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.4.949     Document Type: Article

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