Stenotrophomonas maltophilia peritonitis in CAPD patients: Susceptibility to antibiotics and treatment outcome: A report of five cases

Peritoneal Dialysis International

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 401-404

  Tzanetou, Konstantina ^a   Triantaphillis, Georgios ^a   Tsoutsos, Dimitrios ^a   Petropoulou, Dimitra ^a   Ganteris, Georgios ^a   Malamou Lada, Eleni ^a   Ziroyiannis, Panos ^a  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4444236709     PISSN: 08968608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089686080402400418     Document Type: Article

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