Staphylococcus epidermidis Urinary Tract Infection in an Infant

We describe the case of a previously healthy 7-month-old male infant with urinary tract infection due to Staphylococcus epidermidis grown from two separate urine cultures. Further evaluation showed severe bilateral vesicoureteral reflux. Physicians should not assume that S. epidermidis is always a c...

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Autores principales: Upadhyayula, Shankar, Kambalapalli, Mamatha, Asmar, Basim I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3423821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22924140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/983153
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description We describe the case of a previously healthy 7-month-old male infant with urinary tract infection due to Staphylococcus epidermidis grown from two separate urine cultures. Further evaluation showed severe bilateral vesicoureteral reflux. Physicians should not assume that S. epidermidis is always a contaminant in urine cultures.
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spelling pubmed-34238212012-08-24 Staphylococcus epidermidis Urinary Tract Infection in an Infant Upadhyayula, Shankar Kambalapalli, Mamatha Asmar, Basim I. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report We describe the case of a previously healthy 7-month-old male infant with urinary tract infection due to Staphylococcus epidermidis grown from two separate urine cultures. Further evaluation showed severe bilateral vesicoureteral reflux. Physicians should not assume that S. epidermidis is always a contaminant in urine cultures. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3423821/ /pubmed/22924140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/983153 Text en Copyright © 2012 Shankar Upadhyayula et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Staphylococcus epidermidis Urinary Tract Infection in an Infant
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title_fullStr Staphylococcus epidermidis Urinary Tract Infection in an Infant
title_full_unstemmed Staphylococcus epidermidis Urinary Tract Infection in an Infant
title_short Staphylococcus epidermidis Urinary Tract Infection in an Infant
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3423821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22924140
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