Ascitic fluid lactoferrin for diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.

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Published in Gastroenterology on May 21, 2008

Authors

Mansour A Parsi1, Sherif N Saadeh, Nizar N Zein, Gary L Davis, Rocio Lopez, James Boone, Maria R Lepe, Linsheng Guo, Mohammad Ashfaq, Goran Klintmalm, Arthur J McCullough

Author Affiliations

1: Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. parsim@ccf.org

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