Red discoloration of urine caused by Serratia rubidae: A rare case

There have been only a few reported human cases of infections caused by Serratia rubidae in literature. Among these sparse cases there is only one reported case of urinary tract infection (UTI) due to S. rubidae in literature. The organism is known to produce a red pigment known as prodigiosin. We r...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Simit, Bandyopadhyay, Maitreyi, Chatterjee, Mitali, Mukhopadhyay, Prabir, Pal, Suranjan, Poddar, Sumon, Banerjee, Parthajit
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984263
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0770.112790
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author Kumar, Simit
Bandyopadhyay, Maitreyi
Chatterjee, Mitali
Mukhopadhyay, Prabir
Pal, Suranjan
Poddar, Sumon
Banerjee, Parthajit
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description There have been only a few reported human cases of infections caused by Serratia rubidae in literature. Among these sparse cases there is only one reported case of urinary tract infection (UTI) due to S. rubidae in literature. The organism is known to produce a red pigment known as prodigiosin. We report a case of UTI caused by S. rubidae in a diabetic patient who presented with burning micturition and reddish discoloration of urine, which on laboratory diagnosis, was proved to be due to the reddish pigment produced by the organism. This case report highlights that this rare organism might be associated with UTI leading to reddish discoloration of urine.
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spelling pubmed-37528572013-08-27 Red discoloration of urine caused by Serratia rubidae: A rare case Kumar, Simit Bandyopadhyay, Maitreyi Chatterjee, Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Prabir Pal, Suranjan Poddar, Sumon Banerjee, Parthajit Avicenna J Med Case Report There have been only a few reported human cases of infections caused by Serratia rubidae in literature. Among these sparse cases there is only one reported case of urinary tract infection (UTI) due to S. rubidae in literature. The organism is known to produce a red pigment known as prodigiosin. We report a case of UTI caused by S. rubidae in a diabetic patient who presented with burning micturition and reddish discoloration of urine, which on laboratory diagnosis, was proved to be due to the reddish pigment produced by the organism. This case report highlights that this rare organism might be associated with UTI leading to reddish discoloration of urine. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3752857/ /pubmed/23984263 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0770.112790 Text en Copyright: © Avicenna Journal of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Poddar, Sumon
Banerjee, Parthajit
Red discoloration of urine caused by Serratia rubidae: A rare case
title Red discoloration of urine caused by Serratia rubidae: A rare case
title_full Red discoloration of urine caused by Serratia rubidae: A rare case
title_fullStr Red discoloration of urine caused by Serratia rubidae: A rare case
title_full_unstemmed Red discoloration of urine caused by Serratia rubidae: A rare case
title_short Red discoloration of urine caused by Serratia rubidae: A rare case
title_sort red discoloration of urine caused by serratia rubidae: a rare case
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984263
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0770.112790
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