A Cluster of Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Exit-Site Infections

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Tse, Kai Chung ^a   Lui, Sing Leung ^b   Cheng, Vincent Chi Chung ^a   Yip, Terence Pok Siu ^b   Lo, Wai Kei ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b TUNG WAH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Atypical mycobacteria; exit site infection; gentamicin; peritoneal dialysis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; QUINOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRANULATION TISSUE; GRANULOMA; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KLEBSIELLA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PROPHYLAXIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT INFECTION; STAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY;

EID: 34250787451     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.04.017     Document Type: Article

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