Treatment of catheter-related bacteraemia with an antibiotic lock protocol: effect of bacterial pathogen
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Treatment of catheter-related bacteraemia with an antibiotic lock protocol: effect of bacterial pathogen.
BACKGROUND The standard therapy of dialysis catheter-related bacteraemia involves both systemic antibiotics and catheter replacement. We reported recently that instillation of an antibiotic lock (highly concentrated antibiotic solution) into the catheter lumen after dialysis sessions, in conjunction with systemic antibiotics, can successfully treat many episodes of catheter-related bacteraemia ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh041