Biofilms and Infection in Dialysis Patients
- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Seminars in Dialysis
- Vol. 15 (5) , 338-346
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-139x.2002.00084.x
Abstract
Biofilm bacterial infections are implicated in most human bacterial infections and are also common in patients undergoing treatment with hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Skin bacteria, which gro...Keywords
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