Variability in Culture-Negative Peritonitis Rates in Pediatric Peritoneal Dialysis Programs in the United States.

CONCLUSIONS: Culture-negative peritonitis is a frequent complication of maintenance peritoneal dialysis in children. Despite published recommendations for dialysis effluent collection and culture methods, great variability in culture techniques and procedures exists among individual dialysis programs and respective laboratory processes.
PMID: 33462084 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - January 18, 2021 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Davis TK, Bryant KA, Rodean J, Richardson T, Selvarangan R, Qin X, Neu A, Warady BA Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research