The purpose of this study was to determine if the newly available FAN anaerobic bottle
(FANAN) alone would be comparable to the combination of the FAN aerobic (FANAE) plus …

Culture-negative peritonitis is a major complication for patients on continuous ambulatory
peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and precludes organism-specific therapy. The aim of the present …

Background A major complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD) is peritonitis, and bacterial
culture of PD effluent in a blood culture bottle is the preferred technique for diagnosis of …

AIMS:(1) To compare the recovery of organisms from continuous ambulatory peritoneal
dialysis (CAPD) effluent fluid obtained from patients with clinical evidence of peritonitis, with …

There is not yet a universally accepted protocol for the recovery of microorganisms causing
peritonitis in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). We …

Recovery of microorganisms causing peritonitis in patients on continuous ambulatory
peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) continues to be problematic. To date, there is no universally …

At present our standard method, described previously by Gruer (I), uses 80 ml of dialysis
effluent. Of this 60 ml is injected into a standard 100 ml medical flat culture bottle containing …

Methods One-hundred and eleven dialysates from 43 patients suspected of peritonitis
related to CAPD were retrospectively evaluated between May 2000 and February 2008. In …

Patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) who reside long distances
from a CAPD center often use community medical laboratories to document and manage …

We evaluated the BacT/Alert® Microbial Detection System (Organon Teknika Corporation,
Durham, NC, USA) by using FAN bottles compared to conventional culture methods for the …