Role of bacteria in the development of kidney stones

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-38

  Kramer, Gero ^a   Klingler, Hans Christoph ^a   Steiner, Georg E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM MAGNESIUM PHOSPHATE; APATITE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CALCIUM; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; STRUVITE; UREA; UREASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HYPEROXALURIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KLEBSIELLA; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NANOBACTERIUM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PROVIDENCIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RAT; REVIEW; SERRATIA; SERUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE; URINE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHATES; RATS;

EID: 0033957313     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042307-200001000-00009     Document Type: Review

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