Mycoplasma edwardii peritonitis in a patient on maintenance peritoneal dialysis

Creator(s)

Shwetal P. Lalan, Children's Mercy Hospital
Bradley A. Warady, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Douglas Blowey, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Ken B. Waites, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Rangaraj Selvarangan, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2015

Identifier

DOI: 10.5414/CN107976

Abstract

Mycoplasma edwardii (M. edwardii) is an anthropozoonotic microorganism found in the upper respiratory and urogenital tracts of dogs. M. edwardii was one of the microbes isolated from peritoneal fluid of a 10-year-old child diagnosed with polymicrobial peritonitis following a puncture of dialysis tubing by a pet dog. Other unique pathogens representative of canine oral microflora isolated from this patient on peritoneal dialysis were Kingella denitrificans, Actinomycetes species and Capnocytophaga cynodegmi.

Journal Title

Clinical Nephrology

Volume

83

Issue

1

First Page

45

Last Page

48

Keywords

Mycoplasma edwardii, Peritoneal dialysis, Peritonitis

Recommended Citation

Lalan, S. P., Warady, B. A., Blowey, D., Waites, K. B., Selvarangan, R. Mycoplasma edwardii peritonitis in a patient on maintenance peritoneal dialysis Clinical Nephrology 83, 45-48 (2015).