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Prevention of infections and selected therapies for AV fistula as well as AV shunt infections are presented here.
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Scholz, H. (2015). Infections. In: Arteriovenous Access Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41139-7_7
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