… An estimated 20% of all peritonitis cases are preceded by an exit site or tunnel infection,
with an association of up to 50% in cases due to S. aureus or P. aeruginosa [9, 12, 13]. …

… -site/tunnel infections and peritonitis. … infection (ESI) and tunnel infection, is a common
complication that results in considerable morbidity and even death in up to 3.5–10.0% of patients […

… important infectious complications associated with dialysis access. … , and outcomes related
to dialysis-access infections. … evidence of exit-site or tunnel infection can also indicate CRBSI, …

… Peritoneal dialysis (PD) related infections continue to be a major cause of morbidity … site
infection respectively. The overall incidence of tunnel infection was 1 episode every 278.1 patient…

… dialysis provider’s adherence to care bundles was associated with a patient’s subsequent
risk of infection. … Given the continuum between infections at the exit site and tunnel infections, …

… on episodes of peritonitis due to either tunnel infections or enteric organisms. Therefore, …
diagnosis of tunnel infections in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Am J Kidney Dis …

… All tunnel infections and exit-site infections were checked with local cultures. Local infection
was … Blood cultures were obtained from the arterial dialysis line during the session or from …

… patients with chronic exit-site and tunnel infections underwent surgical salvage consisting of
unroofing the tunnel … A control group of 138 patients implanted during the same time span as …

… dialysis; the remainder received a renal transplant (118). For the dialysis patients, infection
is the … dialysis catheters has been to define tunnel infection as the extension of an exit-site …

… Extensive tunnel infections of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) dialysis grafts have … excision
of infected dialysis PTFE grafts; success occurred in 14 of 15 excised grafts in 12 patients. The …