Bacterial pathogens in peritoneal dialysis peritonitis: Insights from next-generation sequencing.

CONCLUSIONS: For the clinician, our results suggest that PD peritonitis may often be a polymicrobial disease and that treating a dominant organism may not totally eradicate all bacterial contamination within the peritoneum. For the clinical scientist, additional use of a larger 16S rRNA segment (V5 or V6) is likely to outperform the use of the V4 segment only. PMID: 32162597 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32162597?dopt=Abstract

Source: Peritoneal Dialysis International - March 13, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Perit Dial Int Source Type: research