TY - BOOK AU - Shaimaa Bakr Sayed Galeb AU - Amani Ali Elkholy , AU - Omaima Elhennawy , AU - Seham Bakry , TI - Surveillance of healtcare - associated infections in dialysis units of internal Medicine in Cairo University hospitals / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Shaimaa Bakr Sayed Galeb , KW - ESRD KW - Infections in dialysis KW - Surveillance of healtcare N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - ESRD patients on maintenance HD are strikingly vulnerable to infection for many reasons including the immunodepressed state intrinsic to end stage renal disease (ESRD) the high prevalence of diabetes exposure to other patients in the HD facility three times per week frequent hospitalization and the invasiveness of the HD procedure UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -