Bloodstream infections in hemodialysis patients: Getting some deserved attention

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 713-715

  Tokars, Jerome I ^a,b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER; EDITORIAL; FISTULA; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; VASCULAR ACCESS; WOUND DRESSING;

AMBULATORY CARE; BACTEREMIA; CANADA; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036908137     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501998     Document Type: Editorial

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