Incidental Renal Botryomycosis in a Nonfunctioning Kidney

Botryomycosis is a unique form of bacterial infection, closely mimicking actinomycosis. The usual site of occurrence is the skin and renal botryomycosis is very rare. The most common organism is Staphylococcus aureus which can be identified using Gram stain and confirmed by culture. Early and accura...

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Autores principales: Mathew, Mary, Nayal, Bhavna, Nagel, Bhawna, Thomas, Joseph
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/PMC3914196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24533202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/239093
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author Mathew, Mary
Nayal, Bhavna
Nagel, Bhawna
Thomas, Joseph
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description Botryomycosis is a unique form of bacterial infection, closely mimicking actinomycosis. The usual site of occurrence is the skin and renal botryomycosis is very rare. The most common organism is Staphylococcus aureus which can be identified using Gram stain and confirmed by culture. Early and accurate diagnosis can ensure appropriate antibiotic therapy. We present a young lady diagnosed to have incidental botryomycosis of the kidney, following nephrectomy.
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spelling pubmed-39141962014-02-16 Incidental Renal Botryomycosis in a Nonfunctioning Kidney Mathew, Mary Nayal, Bhavna Nagel, Bhawna Thomas, Joseph Case Rep Nephrol Case Report Botryomycosis is a unique form of bacterial infection, closely mimicking actinomycosis. The usual site of occurrence is the skin and renal botryomycosis is very rare. The most common organism is Staphylococcus aureus which can be identified using Gram stain and confirmed by culture. Early and accurate diagnosis can ensure appropriate antibiotic therapy. We present a young lady diagnosed to have incidental botryomycosis of the kidney, following nephrectomy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3914196/ /pubmed/24533202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/239093 Text en Copyright © 2012 Mary Mathew 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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title_full Incidental Renal Botryomycosis in a Nonfunctioning Kidney
title_fullStr Incidental Renal Botryomycosis in a Nonfunctioning Kidney
title_full_unstemmed Incidental Renal Botryomycosis in a Nonfunctioning Kidney
title_short Incidental Renal Botryomycosis in a Nonfunctioning Kidney
title_sort incidental renal botryomycosis in a nonfunctioning kidney
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