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Polymorphonuclear cell count response and duration of antibiotic therapy in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

✍ Scribed by Tse-Ling Fong; Evangelos A. Akriviadis; Bruce A. Runyon; Telfer B. Reynolds

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Weight: 465 KB
Volume: 9
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840090313

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