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Leclercia adecarboxylata peritonitis in a child receiving chronic peritoneal dialysis
1Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
|January 10, 2001
Abstract:
A 5 year old boy with end-stage renal disease presented with clinical and laboratory findings of peritonitis. Peritoneal fluid revealed infection with Leclercia adecarboxylata. This is a motile, gram-negative bacillus, formerly designated enteric group 41 and Escherichia adecarboxylata. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of peritonitis due to this organism.