Local application of mupirocin at the peritoneal catheter exit site prevents early postoperative infections and should become standard practice [2]

Peritoneal Dialysis International

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 526-527

  Prakashan, K P ^a   Annigeri, R A ^a   Chu, M ^a   Vas, S I ^a   Oreopoulos, D G ^a   Bargman, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEAL CATHETER; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUPIROCIN; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0034782678     PISSN: 08968608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

References (7)

1. Postoperative exit-site infection and factors affecting it
2. Decrease in Staphylococcus aureus exit-site infections and peritonitis in CAPD patients by local application of mupirocin ointment at the catheter exit site
3. A randomized trial of Staphylococcus aureus prophylaxis in peritoneal dialysis patients: Mupirocin calcium ointment 2% applied to the exit site versus cyclic oral rifampin
4. Application of mupirocin cream at the catheter exit site reduces exit-site infections and peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients
5. Effect of preventing Staphylococcus aureus carriage on rates of peritoneal catheter-related staphylococcal infections
6. Is it possible to decrease the rate of Staphylococcus aureus peritonitis?
7. Resistance to mupirocin: No indication of it to date while using mupirocin ointment for prevention of Staphylococcus aureus exit-site infections in peritoneal dialysis patients