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Case Reports
. 1985 May;21(5):838-9.
doi: 10.1128/jcm.21.5.838-839.1985.

Unusual bacterium, group Ve-2, causing peritonitis in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis

M R Silver, T P Felegie, M I Sorkin
Case Reports

Unusual bacterium, group Ve-2, causing peritonitis in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis

M R Silver et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1985 May.

Abstract

We report a case of peritonitis in a continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patient with an unusual bacterium known as group Ve-2. This is the first reported case of peritonitis attributable to this organism and only the second well-documented case of infection with this organism in the English literature.

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