Dialysate white-cell count and differential was performed by a Cytospin technique in 38 control CAPD patients and serially in 24 patients with bacterial peritonitis and one patient with “peritoneal fluid eosinophilia”. Dialysate solutions of control patients have cell counts below 501 mm3, comprised mainly of mononuclear cells; these presumably repre
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