Latinos have higher rates of kidney dialysis infection

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Preventable bloodstream infections related to kidney failure treatment are more common in the U.S. Blacks and Hispanics than in whites, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Monday.

Use of neck veins for administration of hemodialysis was the most important risk factor, but not the only one, researchers said in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Roughly 40% of the infections were resistant to treatment with the antibiotic methicillin, the report found.
Patients whose kidney function falls below a certain level require a dialysis machine periodically to do the organs’ work of cleansing the blood.

The most significant risk factor for the seriously and potentially deadly infection was administration of dialysis though a large “central vein” catheter in the neck.

Use of a central venous catheter for hemodialysis conferred a six-times-higher risk for S. aureus bloodstream infection compared to use of a port in the arm known as a fistula, the researchers found.