RECURRENT BACTERIAL PERITONITIS CAUSED BY NEISSERIA-CINEREA IN A CHRONIC AMBULATORY PERITONEAL-DIALYSIS (CAPD) PATIENT

Authors
GEORGE MJ DEBIN JA PRESTON KE CHIU C HAQQIE SS
Citation
Mj. George et al., RECURRENT BACTERIAL PERITONITIS CAUSED BY NEISSERIA-CINEREA IN A CHRONIC AMBULATORY PERITONEAL-DIALYSIS (CAPD) PATIENT, Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 26(2), 1996, pp. 91-93
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease → ACNP
ISSN journal
07328893
Volume
26
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
91 - 93
Database
ISI
SICI code
0732-8893(1996)26:2<91:RBPCBN>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
We present an unusual case of recurrent (chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis) CAPD-associated peritonitis caused by Neisseria cinerea. Us ing DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis, we d etermined that the recurrent infection was caused by reinfection with a different N. cinerea strain rather than relapse with the index strai n and that the probable origin of the reinfecting organism was the pat ient's upper respiratory tract. (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Inc.