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- Title
Mupirocin for preventing exit-site infection and peritonitis in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis.
- Authors
Gaosi Xu; Weiping Tu; Chengyun Xu
- Abstract
Objectives. Recently, there have been increasing concerns about the emergence of mupirocin resistance and increased infections due to lowered inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus. We conducted this systemic analysis to find out whether the application of mupirocin was effective for the prevention of exit-site infection (ESI) and peritonitis in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD).
- Subjects
MUPIROCIN; INFECTION treatment; PERITONITIS; PERITONEAL dialysis; DRUG efficacy
- Publication
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2010, Vol 25, Issue 2, p587
- ISSN
0931-0509
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ndt/gfp411