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Enterococcus hirae bacteremia associated with perinephric collection and renal abscesses in a diabetic woman

Enterococcus hirae infection accounts for about 1% of all enterococcal infections. This number is likely to be underestimated because of inadequate identification. Human infection due to E. hirae is rarely reported. We present the case of a young woman with diabetes mellitus who developed symptoms o...

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Autores principales: Chang, Chee Yik, Jayabalan, Mogeshwari, Gan, Yi Lung, Radhakrishnan, Anuradha P, Ong, Edmund L C
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9514112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36176951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac101
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author Chang, Chee Yik
Jayabalan, Mogeshwari
Gan, Yi Lung
Radhakrishnan, Anuradha P
Ong, Edmund L C
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description Enterococcus hirae infection accounts for about 1% of all enterococcal infections. This number is likely to be underestimated because of inadequate identification. Human infection due to E. hirae is rarely reported. We present the case of a young woman with diabetes mellitus who developed symptoms of pyelonephritis and diabetic ketoacidosis. Renal computed tomography scan revealed the presence of subcapsular perinephric collection and renal abscesses. Her blood culture yielded E. hirae. Our patient was successfully treated with antimicrobials based on the susceptibility result. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of perinephric collection and renal abscesses associated with E. hirae bacteremia.
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spelling pubmed-95141122022-09-28 Enterococcus hirae bacteremia associated with perinephric collection and renal abscesses in a diabetic woman Chang, Chee Yik Jayabalan, Mogeshwari Gan, Yi Lung Radhakrishnan, Anuradha P Ong, Edmund L C Oxf Med Case Reports Case Report Enterococcus hirae infection accounts for about 1% of all enterococcal infections. This number is likely to be underestimated because of inadequate identification. Human infection due to E. hirae is rarely reported. We present the case of a young woman with diabetes mellitus who developed symptoms of pyelonephritis and diabetic ketoacidosis. Renal computed tomography scan revealed the presence of subcapsular perinephric collection and renal abscesses. Her blood culture yielded E. hirae. Our patient was successfully treated with antimicrobials based on the susceptibility result. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of perinephric collection and renal abscesses associated with E. hirae bacteremia. Oxford University Press 2022-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9514112/ /pubmed/36176951 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac101 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chang, Chee Yik
Jayabalan, Mogeshwari
Gan, Yi Lung
Radhakrishnan, Anuradha P
Ong, Edmund L C
Enterococcus hirae bacteremia associated with perinephric collection and renal abscesses in a diabetic woman
title Enterococcus hirae bacteremia associated with perinephric collection and renal abscesses in a diabetic woman
title_full Enterococcus hirae bacteremia associated with perinephric collection and renal abscesses in a diabetic woman
title_fullStr Enterococcus hirae bacteremia associated with perinephric collection and renal abscesses in a diabetic woman
title_full_unstemmed Enterococcus hirae bacteremia associated with perinephric collection and renal abscesses in a diabetic woman
title_short Enterococcus hirae bacteremia associated with perinephric collection and renal abscesses in a diabetic woman
title_sort enterococcus hirae bacteremia associated with perinephric collection and renal abscesses in a diabetic woman
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9514112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36176951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac101
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