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Table 3 Microbiology of peritoneal effluent cultures (including overlap)

From: Peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients in Japan: a 2013 retrospective questionnaire survey of Japanese Society for Peritoneal Dialysis member institutions

Gram-positives

270

Staphylococcus aureus

52

Staphylococcus epidermidis

30

  Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

34

  Other Staphylococcus sp.

23

   Streptococcus sp.

75

   Corynebacterium sp.

19

   Enterococcus sp.

19

  Other

18

Gram-negatives

116

   Pseudomonas sp.

21

   Serratia sp.

9

   Alcaligenes sp.

0

   Escherichia coli

25

   Neisseria sp.

1

   Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

3

   Acinetobacter sp.

16

   Klebsiella sp.

19

   Citrobacter sp.

3

  Other

19

Other

42

   Candida sp.

6

   Aspergillus

1

  Other organism

35

Culture-negative

131