Outbreak of sterile peritonitis among continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis patients

Kidney International

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1367-1371

  Mangram, Alicia J ^a   Archibald, Lennox K ^b   Hupert, Mark ^b   Tokars, Jerome I ^b   Silver, L Christine ^b   Brennan, Patrick ^b   Arduino, Matthew ^b   Peterson, Sonya ^b   Parks, Seaul ^b   Raymond, Alicia ^b   Mccullough, Margaret ^b   Jones, Martha ^b   Wasserstein, Allen ^b   Kobrin, Sidney ^b   Jarvis, William R ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CCPD; Dialysate contamination; Endotoxin; Epidemic; Home dialysis; Infection

Indexed keywords

DIALYSIS FLUID;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 7344255241     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1998.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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