Streptococcus agalactiae: A rare peritoneal infection in a continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patient

Renal Failure

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1123-1124

  De Los Santos, Carlos Abaeté ^a   Prado Lima Figueiredo, Ana Elizabeth ^a   Poli De Figueiredo, Carlos Eduardo ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CAPD; Hemodialysis; Streptococcus agalactiae peritonitis

Indexed keywords

CEFALOTIN; CEFTAZIDIME; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GENTAMICIN; MEPREDNISONE; PREDNISONE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALPORT SYNDROME; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOPENIA; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CATHETER; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PERITONITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 77957277246     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0886022X.2010.504909     Document Type: Article

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