Corynebacterium peritonitis in Australian peritoneal dialysis patients: Predictors, treatment and outcomes in 82 cases

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3834-3839

  Barraclough, Katherine ^a,b   Hawley, Carmel M ^a,b   McDonald, Stephen P ^a,c   Brown, Fiona G ^a,d   Rosman, Johan B ^a,e   Wiggins, Kathryn J ^a,f   Bannister, Kym M ^a,g   Johnson, David W ^a,b  

^a Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^e MIDDLEMORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Corynebacteria; Diphtheroids; Peritonitis; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DICLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TICARCILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CATHETER REMOVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS;

EID: 71049162612     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp322     Document Type: Article

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