Haemophilus influenzae Urethritis: A Localization to Consider

Urethritis may be acute or subacute and can be classified as gonococcal or nongonococcal. Nongonococcal urethritis is mainly dominated by Chlamydia trachomatis. Other bacteria such as Haemophilus influenzae have been implicated in some cases. We report the case of a 56-year-old diabetic man with H....

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Autores principales: Ben Lahlou, Yassine, Malihy, Zakaria, Benaissa, Mostapha, Chadli, Mariama, Elouennass, Mostapha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10460499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37641768
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42601
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author Ben Lahlou, Yassine
Malihy, Zakaria
Benaissa, Mostapha
Chadli, Mariama
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description Urethritis may be acute or subacute and can be classified as gonococcal or nongonococcal. Nongonococcal urethritis is mainly dominated by Chlamydia trachomatis. Other bacteria such as Haemophilus influenzae have been implicated in some cases. We report the case of a 56-year-old diabetic man with H. influenzae urethritis following unprotected oral sex. The patient initially received treatment with ciprofloxacin, but this proved to be ineffective. Once our diagnosis was made, we switched the patient to cefixime for a period of seven days, which resulted in a successful clinical outcome.
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spelling pubmed-104604992023-08-28 Haemophilus influenzae Urethritis: A Localization to Consider Ben Lahlou, Yassine Malihy, Zakaria Benaissa, Mostapha Chadli, Mariama Elouennass, Mostapha Cureus Infectious Disease Urethritis may be acute or subacute and can be classified as gonococcal or nongonococcal. Nongonococcal urethritis is mainly dominated by Chlamydia trachomatis. Other bacteria such as Haemophilus influenzae have been implicated in some cases. We report the case of a 56-year-old diabetic man with H. influenzae urethritis following unprotected oral sex. The patient initially received treatment with ciprofloxacin, but this proved to be ineffective. Once our diagnosis was made, we switched the patient to cefixime for a period of seven days, which resulted in a successful clinical outcome. Cureus 2023-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10460499/ /pubmed/37641768 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42601 Text en Copyright © 2023, Ben Lahlou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Ben Lahlou, Yassine
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title Haemophilus influenzae Urethritis: A Localization to Consider
title_full Haemophilus influenzae Urethritis: A Localization to Consider
title_fullStr Haemophilus influenzae Urethritis: A Localization to Consider
title_full_unstemmed Haemophilus influenzae Urethritis: A Localization to Consider
title_short Haemophilus influenzae Urethritis: A Localization to Consider
title_sort haemophilus influenzae urethritis: a localization to consider
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10460499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37641768
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42601
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