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Volume 2007, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0253-8253
  • EISSN: 2227-0426

Abstract

A sixty years old patient, known case of chronic renal failure on regular hemodialysis through long term intravascular catheter was admitted with fever. Blood culture revealed staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (MSSA).

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