Comparing Two Automated Techniques for the Primary Screening-Out of Urine Culture.

Urinary tract infection is the most common human infection with a high morbidity. In primary care and hospital services, conventional urine culture is a key part of infection diagnosis but results take at least 24 h. Therefore, a rapid and reliable screening method is still needed to discard negative samples as quickly as possible and to reduce the laboratory workload.

Validation and Search of the Ideal Cut-Off of the Sysmex UF-1000i Flow Cytometer for the Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection in a Tertiary Hospital in Spain.

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most prevalent infections. A rapid and reliable screening method is useful to screen out negative samples. The objective of this study was to validate the Sysmex flow cytometer UF-1000i by evaluating its accuracy, linearity and carry-over; and define an optimal cut-off value to be used in routine practice in our hospital.

Development of imipenem resistance in an Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria clinical isolate recovered from a patient with cholangitis.

Several imipenem-susceptible and -resistant Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria isolates with different morphologies and antimicrobial susceptibilities recovered from bile samples of a patient with cholangitis were analysed. These isolates belonged to the same clone and the imipenem-resistant strains showed overexpression of the imiS gene, encoding a chromosomal carbapenemase. These results should make clinicians aware of the possible emergence of multidrug-resistant A.

Surgical site infection due to Aeromonas species: report of nine cases and literature review.

Gastrointestinal and wound infections are the most common clinical presentation of Aeromonas. Surgical site infections (SSIs) due to this microorganism are rare. We studied the clinical and microbiological characteristics of 9 cases that appeared at 2 Spanish hospitals and reviewed 15 cases available in the literature.

Aeromonas hemolytic uremic syndrome. A case and a review of the literature.

Although rarely, hemolytic uremic syndrome can be induced by Aeromonas. We report a case in a 40-year-old Spanish female produced by Aeromonas veronii bv. sobria and review the previous cases described in the literature.