Changing epidemiology and predictors of mortality in patients with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis at a liver transplant unit
- 1 June 2003
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Clinical Microbiology & Infection
- Vol. 9 (6), 531-537
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00691.x
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