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Sreedhar Adapa1, Purva Gumaste2, Venu Madhav Konala3

  • 1Attending Nephrologist, The Nephrology Group, Fresno, CA, USA.

Case Reports in Nephrology
|January 24, 2019
PubMed

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Peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients is serious. This case highlights Moraxella osloensis, an uncommon bacterium causing peritonitis, which successfully responded to cephalosporin treatment.

Area of Science:

  • Microbiology
  • Nephrology

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  • Peritonitis is a significant complication in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis.
  • Gram-positive organisms are more common causes of peritonitis than gram-negative organisms.
  • Improved microbiological techniques have led to the identification of peritonitis caused by unusual organisms.

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