Indications for vancomycin in dialysis patients

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 389-392

  Golper, Thomas A ^a   Schulman, Gerald ^a   D'Agata, Erika M C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; HUMANS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RENAL DIALYSIS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0034320605     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-139x.2000.00107.x     Document Type: Article

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