Characterization of clinically significant isolates ofStaphylococcus epidermidisfrom patients with cerebrospinal fluid shunt infections
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Cerebrospinal fluid shunt technology.
Since the invention of the first implantable shunt valve by Nulsen and Spitz (12) almost 50 years ago, there has been a remarkable number of ingenious modifications and new designs of shunt equipment to treat pediatric hydrocephalus. These developments were in response to the immediately evident high shunt failure rate. These designs included antisiphon devices (15), on-off devices, gravity-act...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Infection
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0950-2688,1469-4409
DOI: 10.1017/s0950268800067510