Influence of carbon dioxide on growth and antibiotic susceptibility of coagulase-negative staphylococci cultured in human peritoneal dialysate

Wilcox, M. H., Smith, D. G. E., Evans, J. A., Denyer, Stephen Paul, Finch, R. G. and Williams, P. 1990. Influence of carbon dioxide on growth and antibiotic susceptibility of coagulase-negative staphylococci cultured in human peritoneal dialysate. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 28 (10) , pp. 2183-2186.

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Abstract

Used peritoneal dialysis fluid was collected from patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, and its pH and composition were assessed after incubation in either air or air with 5% CO2. Precipitation of calcium, magnesium, phosphate, and proteins occurred in the dialysis fluid incubated in air at 37 degrees C and was associated with a mean pH increase of 1.23 U. Incubation of dialysis fluid in air with 5% CO2 prevented precipitation and maintained pCO2 and pH levels at those found physiologically. Coagulase-negative staphylococcal strains isolated from patients with peritonitis tended to grow less well in dialysis fluid incubated in air than in dialysis fluid incubated in the carbon dioxide-enriched atmosphere. MICs of cefuroxime, ciprofloxacin, and vancomycin for seven strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci in dialysis fluid were markedly affected by atmosphere type (16 of 21 MICs). Of these 16 atmosphere-dependent MICs, 14 were at least fourfold higher in air than in air with 5% CO2.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Pharmacy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
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Publisher:	American Society for Microbiology
ISSN:	0095-1137
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 16:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/44239

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