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Antimicrobial susceptibility tests (AST) such as the broth-microdilution method (BMD) guide appropriate antimicrobial therapy but may fail to detect various forms of AMR, such as heteroresistance. We report vancomycin treatment failure in a\n                        <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Staphylococcus epidermidis<\/jats:italic>\n                        peritoneal dialysis (PD) associated peritonitis case with vancomycin heteroresistance undetected by conventional AST and whole-genome sequencing.\n                      <\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:sec>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>Case Summary<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>\n                        A patient with cloudy PD effluent presented to his local dialysis center. Samples were sent for testing, and empirical treatment with vancomycin and gentamicin was initiated. An\n                        <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. epidermidis<\/jats:italic>\n                        isolate (C099) was cultured, and treatment was changed to vancomycin monotherapy, with the isolate recorded as susceptible using the VITEK 2. Despite treatment, effluent remained culture positive, and two additional\n                        <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">S. epidermidis<\/jats:italic>\n                        isolates were cultured (C100 and C101). These isolates were also recorded as susceptible to vancomycin using the VITEK 2. Seventeen days post-presentation, the PD catheter was removed due to persistent infection, and the patient was transferred to hemodialysis.\n                      <\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:sec>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>Conventional AST (VITEK 2 and BMD) misclassified the isolates as vancomycin susceptible, while population analysis profiling area under the curve confirmed heteroresistance. Whole-genome sequencing did not identify genetic mechanisms for the heteroresistance, with no mutations detected in known resistance-associated genes. 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