Open AccessSuttonella indologenes peritonitis in a patient receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
Author(s) -
Nurhayat Özkan Sevencan,
Serkan Bakırdöğen,
Adem Adar,
Burçak Kayhan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation/našrat amraḍ wa zira'aẗ al-kulaẗ
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 2320-3838
pISSN - 1319-2442
DOI - 10.4103/1319-2442.225200
Subject(s) - medicine , continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis , peritonitis , ambulatory , peritoneal dialysis , endocarditis , intensive care medicine , surgery
Suttonella indologenes is a Gram-negative, aerobic coccobacillus of Cardiobacteriaceae family and its natural habitat is the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory system. The literature includes limited number of case reports concerning fatal endocarditis due to infection in the prosthetic heart valves caused by the aforementioned microorganism. However, there is no information on extracardiac involvement due to this microorganism. Here, we present a peritonitis case caused by Suttonella indologenes in a patient receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.