Do topical antibiotics reduce exit site infection rates and peritonitis episodes in peritoneal dialysis patients? The Pan Thames Renal Audit.
Conclusions: Topical antibiotics have been reported to reduce both ESI and peritonitis rates in controlled trials, and although in this audit of routine clinical practice, topical mupirocin did reduce overall ESI rates and both mupirocin and gentamicin reduced S. aureus ESIs, neither reduced overall peritonitis rates.
PMID: 22241640 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)
