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Comment
. 2013 Sep-Oct;33(5):475-8.
doi: 10.3747/pdi.2013.00191.

Is female sex really a risk factor for infectious death in peritoneal dialysis?

David W Johnson  1 , Yeoungjee Cho, Rajnish Mehrotra
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Is female sex really a risk factor for infectious death in peritoneal dialysis?

David W Johnson et al. Perit Dial Int. 2013 Sep-Oct.
No abstract available

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Kaplan-Meier survival curve for infection-related mortality in 2251 de novo incident peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients in Australia and New Zealand, 2007-2010.
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