Culture-negative spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: An ambiguous diagnosis without peritoneal biopsy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1582-1583

  Cone, Lawrence A ^a   Leung, Millie M ^b  

^a EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS;

AGED; ASCITIC FLUID; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033390354     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313560     Document Type: Article

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