Relapsing peritonitis with Corynebacterium aquaticum in a boy receiving automated peritoneal dialysis

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1253-1254

  Fujinaga, Shuichiro ^a   Ohtomo, Yoshiyuki ^b   Hirano, Daishi ^a   Nishizaki, Naoto ^a   Someya, Tomonosuke ^c   Ohtsuka, Yoshikazu ^c   Kaneko, Kazunari ^d   Shimizu, Toshiaki ^c  

^a SAITAMA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY NERIMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM AQUATICUM; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EFFLUENT; FEVER; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY HYPOPLASIA; LETTER; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PERITONITIS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 67650311676     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-008-1059-8     Document Type: Letter

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