Drug May Cure a Rare Type of Peritonitis
SAN DIEGO—A catheter-chewing cockatoo may have led clinicians to a new tool for the treatment of peritoneal dialysis (PD)-related zygomycete peritonitis. While these infections are rare, they carry a high mortality rate even with treatment. Now, a case study presented here at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in San Diego points to posaconazole as a potentially useful for disseminated zygomycosis.
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