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Percutaneous nephrostomy tube-associated bacteremia caused by Corynebacterium urealyticum.
Corynebacterium urealyticum, an infrequent cause of bacteremia, is an emerging pathogen in humans, especially immunocompromised hosts. This report describes a patient with prostate cancer complicated with obstructive nephropathy who developed C. urealyticum bacteremia after placement of a percutaneous nephrostomy tube. The bacteremia was not controlled until the infected nephrostomy tube was re...
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Corynebacterium urealyticum is a Gram positive, slow-growing, lipophilic, multi-drug resistant, urease positive micro-organism with diphtheroid morphology. It has been reported as an opportunistic nosocomial pathogen and as the cause of a variety of diseases including but not limited to cystitis, pyelonephritis, and bacteremia among others. This review serves to describe C. urealyticum with res...
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Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common canine infections, and among the most common indications for antimicrobial therapy. Although a presumptive diagnosis of UTI can be made based on the clinical signs along with a urinalysis, urine culture and sensitivity testing is indicated for the definitive diagnosis as well as for the choice of appropriate antimicrobial therapy (Ling, 20...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista chilena de infectología
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0716-1018
DOI: 10.4067/s0716-10182009000700010