Catheter locks, heparin and biofilm: What is this the risk?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2708-2709

  Diskin, Charles J ^a   Stokes, Thomas J ^a   Dansby, Linda ^a   Radcliff, Lautrec ^a   Carter, Thomas B ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HEPARIN; IRON;

BIOFILM; CATHETER; CATHETER INFECTION; ENTEROBACTER; ERADICATION THERAPY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTICOAGULANTS; BIOFILMS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; HEPARIN; HUMANS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 48749125606     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn220     Document Type: Letter

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