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Neisseria sicca peritonitis in a patient maintained on chronic peritoneal dialysis
A M Neu1, B Case, H M Lederman
1Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
Neisseria sicca, previously classified as a "nonpathogenic" organism, has now been recognized as a cause of many infections, including endocarditis and meningitis. However, it has not been reported as a cause of peritonitis. We present a case of documented N. sicca peritonitis immediately following an episode of Staphylococcus aureus peritonitis in a pediatric chronic peritoneal dialysis (CPD) patient. N. sicca should be considered as a possible pathogen in CPD-associated peritonitis.