Role of an Intraperitoneal Catheter Implant in the Pathogenesis of Experimental Staphylococcus epidermidis Peritoneal Infection in Renal Failure Mice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The influence of a permanent peritoneal catheter implant on the response of renal failure and control mice to peritoneal inoculation with 10(6) colony-forming units (CFU) Staphylococcus epidermidis was assessed 48 h after bacterial challenge. Two weeks after the surgical induction of renal failure or sham surgery, a segment of a peritoneal dialysis catheter was implanted entirely within the confines of the peritoneal cavity of mice. One month later peritoneal S. epidermidis inoculation was performed by transcutaneous injection through the abdominal wall either directly into the peritoneal cavity (i.p.) or via the catheter lumen (i.c.). Following i.p. inoculation, minimal bacterial growth was recovered from the peritoneal structures of all mice, including the peritoneal catheter. In contrast, following i.c. S. epidermidis challenge, the catheter site remained heavily colonized while peritoneal washings and parietal peritoneum again presented minimal bacterial recoveries. S. epidermidis recovery from the catheter site of renal failure mice was significantly greater than from the respective site of sham-operated controls. Scanning electron microscopy of catheter segments recovered from mice following i.c. inoculation revealed single cocci or microcolonies associated with the catheter surface and differential leukocyte counts of fluid aspirated from the catheter lumen revealed evidence of acute inflammation. Signs of inflammatory processes in peritoneal washings and peripheral blood, however, were not observed. These results are discussed in relation to S. epidermidis peritonitis and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".