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Fatal peritonitis due to Trichoderma sp. in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
1Department of Microbiology, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey. mpangels@uscmail.usc.es
Mycoses
|February 18, 2003
Abstract:
We describe a rare case of peritonitis caused by an unusual fungus, Trichoderma sp., in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Management of the patient consisted of Tenckhoff catheter removal and antifungal chemotherapy, but the patient died.