Acute Pyelonephritis with Bacteremia Caused by Enterococcus hirae: A Rare Infection in Humans

Enterococci are one of the usual residents of the microflora in humans. In the last decade this genus has been reported as the third most common cause of bacteremia. We present the case of a 78-year-old female who was admitted to the emergency room because of nausea, lipothymia, and weakness. She wa...

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Autores principales: Pãosinho, Ana, Azevedo, Telma, Alves, João V., Costa, Isabel A., Carvalho, Gustavo, Peres, Susana R., Baptista, Teresa, Borges, Fernando, Mansinho, Kamal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4835626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27127665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4698462
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author Pãosinho, Ana
Azevedo, Telma
Alves, João V.
Costa, Isabel A.
Carvalho, Gustavo
Peres, Susana R.
Baptista, Teresa
Borges, Fernando
Mansinho, Kamal
author_facet Pãosinho, Ana
Azevedo, Telma
Alves, João V.
Costa, Isabel A.
Carvalho, Gustavo
Peres, Susana R.
Baptista, Teresa
Borges, Fernando
Mansinho, Kamal
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description Enterococci are one of the usual residents of the microflora in humans. In the last decade this genus has been reported as the third most common cause of bacteremia. We present the case of a 78-year-old female who was admitted to the emergency room because of nausea, lipothymia, and weakness. She was diagnosed with a pyelonephritis with bacteremia, with the isolation in blood and urine cultures of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus hirae. This last microorganism is a rarely isolated pathogen in humans. Currently it is estimated to represent 1–3% of all enterococcal species isolated in clinical practice.
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spelling pubmed-48356262016-04-28 Acute Pyelonephritis with Bacteremia Caused by Enterococcus hirae: A Rare Infection in Humans Pãosinho, Ana Azevedo, Telma Alves, João V. Costa, Isabel A. Carvalho, Gustavo Peres, Susana R. Baptista, Teresa Borges, Fernando Mansinho, Kamal Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Enterococci are one of the usual residents of the microflora in humans. In the last decade this genus has been reported as the third most common cause of bacteremia. We present the case of a 78-year-old female who was admitted to the emergency room because of nausea, lipothymia, and weakness. She was diagnosed with a pyelonephritis with bacteremia, with the isolation in blood and urine cultures of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus hirae. This last microorganism is a rarely isolated pathogen in humans. Currently it is estimated to represent 1–3% of all enterococcal species isolated in clinical practice. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4835626/ /pubmed/27127665 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4698462 Text en Copyright © 2016 Ana Pãosinho et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Pãosinho, Ana
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Alves, João V.
Costa, Isabel A.
Carvalho, Gustavo
Peres, Susana R.
Baptista, Teresa
Borges, Fernando
Mansinho, Kamal
Acute Pyelonephritis with Bacteremia Caused by Enterococcus hirae: A Rare Infection in Humans
title Acute Pyelonephritis with Bacteremia Caused by Enterococcus hirae: A Rare Infection in Humans
title_full Acute Pyelonephritis with Bacteremia Caused by Enterococcus hirae: A Rare Infection in Humans
title_fullStr Acute Pyelonephritis with Bacteremia Caused by Enterococcus hirae: A Rare Infection in Humans
title_full_unstemmed Acute Pyelonephritis with Bacteremia Caused by Enterococcus hirae: A Rare Infection in Humans
title_short Acute Pyelonephritis with Bacteremia Caused by Enterococcus hirae: A Rare Infection in Humans
title_sort acute pyelonephritis with bacteremia caused by enterococcus hirae: a rare infection in humans
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4835626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27127665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4698462
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