SUMMARY
The skin flora of patients on routine haemodialysis and of outpatients with a renal transplant has been investigated and compared with that of rheumatology outpatients at the same hospital. Dialysis patients had significantly smaller numbers of organisms on the skin. No excess of pathogens or potential pathogens was found in any group.
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