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  • Title: Campylobacter fetus peritonitis followed by septicaemia in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
    Author: Wens R, Dratwa M, Potvliege C, Hansen W, Tielemans C, Collart F.
    Journal: J Infect; 1985 May; 10(3):249-51. PubMed ID: 4031516.
    Abstract:
    A 62-year-old man being treated by continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) developed peritonitis due to Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus (intestinalis), an organism seldom isolated in such circumstances. After appropriate and apparently effective antibiotic therapy, the patient relapsed 6 weeks later with septicaemia. Blood cultures yielded a similar organism, thereby suggesting a clinically silent metastatic infection during the episode of peritonitis, probably at an old arteriovenous fistula. Parenteral tobramycin followed by oral erythromycin achieved a complete cure of this unusual complication.
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