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Stomatococcus mucilaginosus as an agent of CAPD peritonitis
H Lanzendörfer1, K Zaruba, A von Graevenitz
1Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Zentralblatt Fur Bakteriologie, Mikrobiologie, Und Hygiene. Series A, Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Virology, Parasitology
|November 1, 1988
Abstract:
We report a case of bacterial CAPD peritonitis in a 57 year old immunosuppressed woman with renal insufficiency caused by a rare species of the Micrococcaceae, Stomatococcus mucilaginosus. This uncommon case shows that the presence of gram-positive cocci in pairs, tetrads and clusters forming whitish-gummy colonies should remind us of the possibility of Stomatococcus mucilaginosus.