Interferon-gamma levels in peritoneal dialysis effluents: Relation to peritonitis
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Bacterial peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis.
38 episodes of peritonitis in 28 patients were recorded among 97 patients undergoing a total of 159 peritoneal dialysis at the Nephrology Unit, General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur between November 1979 to June 1980. Of these only 14 episodes were associated with a positive bacterial culture. Organism of the Moraxella-Acinetobacter group were responsible in 8 episodes. There were 16 positioe cultures...
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causative organisms are usually bacteria(l). Fungi are uncommonly implicated, .being responsible for only 2-10% of all peritonitis episodes associated with PD(2). The majority of the published experience deals with fungal peritonitis in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, the incidence being 0.2 to 1.7 episodes per 12 patient months of dialysis(3). Fungal peritonitis,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Kidney International
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0085-2538
DOI: 10.1038/ki.1994.297