Aspergillus fumigatus: a rare cause of peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient (a case report)

Although fungal organisms remain an uncommon cause of peritonitis in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis, it carries significant morbidity and mortality. We describe a 36-year-old woman who presented with peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis caused by dual infection with Staphylococcus caprae...

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Autores principales: Engelbrecht, Amori, van Rensburg, Roland, da Costa, Dawood, Chothia, Mogamat-Yazied
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9716970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36505016
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.35.32583
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author Engelbrecht, Amori
van Rensburg, Roland
da Costa, Dawood
Chothia, Mogamat-Yazied
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description Although fungal organisms remain an uncommon cause of peritonitis in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis, it carries significant morbidity and mortality. We describe a 36-year-old woman who presented with peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis caused by dual infection with Staphylococcus caprae and Aspergillus fumigatus and discuss the challenges that were confronted regarding microbiological diagnosis and the selection of optimal antifungal treatment with subsequent successful resumption of peritoneal dialysis.
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spelling pubmed-97169702022-12-08 Aspergillus fumigatus: a rare cause of peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient (a case report) Engelbrecht, Amori van Rensburg, Roland da Costa, Dawood Chothia, Mogamat-Yazied Pan Afr Med J Case Report Although fungal organisms remain an uncommon cause of peritonitis in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis, it carries significant morbidity and mortality. We describe a 36-year-old woman who presented with peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis caused by dual infection with Staphylococcus caprae and Aspergillus fumigatus and discuss the challenges that were confronted regarding microbiological diagnosis and the selection of optimal antifungal treatment with subsequent successful resumption of peritoneal dialysis. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9716970/ /pubmed/36505016 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.35.32583 Text en Copyright: Amori Engelbrecht et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aspergillus fumigatus: a rare cause of peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient (a case report)
title Aspergillus fumigatus: a rare cause of peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient (a case report)
title_full Aspergillus fumigatus: a rare cause of peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient (a case report)
title_fullStr Aspergillus fumigatus: a rare cause of peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient (a case report)
title_full_unstemmed Aspergillus fumigatus: a rare cause of peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient (a case report)
title_short Aspergillus fumigatus: a rare cause of peritonitis in a peritoneal dialysis patient (a case report)
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