Acute febrile illness in cirrhosis - Thinking beyond spontaneous bacterial peritonitis!

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 200-202

  Jain, Ajay K ^a   Sircar, Shohini ^a   Jain, Mayank ^a   Adkar, Sagar ^a   Waghmare, Chandrashekhar ^a   Chahwala, Fatema ^a  

^a CHOITHRAM HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CELLULITIS; CITROBACTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALARIA; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84873942046     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2012.120117     Document Type: Article

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