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Torulopsis famata and Debaryomyces hansenii, the yeast is found in many dairy products like cheese. It is an opportunistic pathogen that is commensal in the oral cavity. The fungus has been implicated in sporadic case reports as causing onychomycosis, systemic blastomycosis, extrinsic allergic alveolitis, systemic fungaemia and endopthalmitis. Candida famata has been very rarely isolated in the...

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has become a real alternative to hemodialysis (HD) in recent decades, with comparable survival rates, lower costs, and improved patient quality of life. Nevertheless, PD‐related infections, including peritonitis, exit‐site infections (ESI), and tunnel infections, are important complications, resulting in significant morbidity and a 3.5–10.0% risk of death. Patients with...

Inadequate host defenses may partly explain the problem of recurrent peritonitis in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. It has been suggested that these defenses may be adversely affected by the fluids used for dialysis, and so we examined the effects of unused, effluent, and infected peritoneal dialysis fluids on phagocytosis and killing by normal neutrophils. We used a clin...

The objective of the study was to identify the microbiological spectrum and drug-sensitivity pattern of peritonitis in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. This was a prospective study done over a period of a year-and-a-half at a tertiary-care hospital in a hilly state of India. The effluent dialysate bags from 36 consecutive patients with peritonitis were studied. One hunderd...

BACKGROUND Sclerosing peritonitis (SP) is a rare but serious complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). Small-bowel obstruction (SBO) due to encapsulation, dense adhesions, or mural fibrous is characteristic, often associated with peritonitis. The aim of the study was to determine the incidence, clinical features, effect of duration of dialysis, and other possible aetiological factors in severe ...

Cefepime is a cephalosporin with a broad spectrum of activity against most gram-positive and gram-negative pathogens. In this study, we attempted to compare the safety and efficacy of cefepime monotherapy against the potentially more toxic combination of vancomycin and netilmicin in the treatment of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)-associated bacterial peritonitis. Eighty-one co...