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Peritonitis due to Roseomonas fauriae in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
E Bibashi1, D Sofianou, K Kontopoulou
1Departments of Medical Microbiology, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. bibashi@med.auth.gr
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|January 5, 2000
Abstract:
Roseomonas is a newly described genus of pink-pigmented, nonfermentative, gram-negative bacteria that have been recognized as a cause of human infections. Roseomonas fauriae is a species rarely isolated from clinical specimens. We report the first known case of peritonitis caused by R. fauriae in a patient receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.