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Fast and furious: a retrospective study of catheter-associated bloodstream infections with internal jugular nontunneled hemodialysis catheters at a tropical center

BACKGROUND: Nontunneled hemodialysis catheters (NTHCs) remain the preferred vascular access at hemodialysis (HD) initiation in developing countries. We studied the incidence, risk factors and microbiological spectrum of jugular NTHC-associated bloodstream infections (CABSIs) at a tertiary care cente...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Varun, Valson, Anna T, Mohapatra, Anjali, David, Vinoi George, Alexander, Suceena, Jacob, Shibu, Bakthavatchalam, Yamuna Devi, Prakash, John Anthony Jude, Balaji, Veeraraghavan, Varughese, Santosh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6768464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31583098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfy138