Corynebacterium urealyticum: a comprehensive review of an understated organism
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Corynebacterium urealyticum: a comprehensive review of an understated organism
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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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Drug Resistance
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1178-6973
DOI: 10.2147/idr.s74795