An Uncommon Cause of Urinary Tract Infections: A Case Report

Urinary tract infections (UTI) in the elderly are common. UTI ranges in severity from mild disease to severe sepsis. Many organisms can cause UTIs yet many UTIs are caused by the same few organisms. An organism that has been increasingly gaining notoriety for infections is Aerococcus urinae. Aerococ...

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Autores principales: Otero-Colón, Jonathan, Farraj, Kristen L, Desai, Zalak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9015076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35464535
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23325
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description Urinary tract infections (UTI) in the elderly are common. UTI ranges in severity from mild disease to severe sepsis. Many organisms can cause UTIs yet many UTIs are caused by the same few organisms. An organism that has been increasingly gaining notoriety for infections is Aerococcus urinae. Aerococcus infections are constantly misdiagnosed due to their difficulty to identify. Here we present a case of an elderly male who was found to have a urinary tract infection with Aerococcus urinaethat progressed into bacteremia, severe sepsis and ultimately death.
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spelling pubmed-90150762022-04-22 An Uncommon Cause of Urinary Tract Infections: A Case Report Otero-Colón, Jonathan Farraj, Kristen L Desai, Zalak Cureus Internal Medicine Urinary tract infections (UTI) in the elderly are common. UTI ranges in severity from mild disease to severe sepsis. Many organisms can cause UTIs yet many UTIs are caused by the same few organisms. An organism that has been increasingly gaining notoriety for infections is Aerococcus urinae. Aerococcus infections are constantly misdiagnosed due to their difficulty to identify. Here we present a case of an elderly male who was found to have a urinary tract infection with Aerococcus urinaethat progressed into bacteremia, severe sepsis and ultimately death. Cureus 2022-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9015076/ /pubmed/35464535 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23325 Text en Copyright © 2022, Otero-Colón 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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