Outcomes in culture positive and culture negative ascitic fluid infection in patients with viral cirrhosis: Cohort study

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kamani, Lubna ^a   Mumtaz, Khalid ^a   Ahmed, Umair S ^a   Ali, Ailia W ^a   Jafri, Wasim ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CREATINE; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VANCOMYCIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; AGED; ASCITES FLUID; BLOOD; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARACENTESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PERITONITIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ASCITES; ASCITIC FLUID; COHORT STUDIES; CREATININE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARACENTESIS; PERITONITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 58749101354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-8-59     Document Type: Article

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