Visible penicillium spp. colonization plaques on a Tenckhoff catheter without resultant peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1872-1873

  Huang, Jenq Wen ^a   Chu, Tzong Shinn ^b   Wu, Ming Shiou ^b   Peng, Yu Sen ^b   Hsieh, Bor Shen ^b,c  

^a FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREMIA;

EID: 0033756094     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.11.1872     Document Type: Article

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10. Can intracatheter retention of antifungal agents cure fungal peritonitis? Two cases successfully treated without catheter removal