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Infectious Disease
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Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria
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Hospital Medicine
Do you recommend prescribing one or two parenteral antibiotics in addition to oral therapy in the management of Mycobacterium abscesses peritonitis related to peritoneal dialysis?
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