: A Rare Cause of Urinary Tract Infection.

Case Rep Infect Dis

School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

Published: October 2021

A 41-year-old man with a neurogenic bladder due to spinal cord injury (SCI) attended the outpatient department with chief complaints of fever, pain in the lower abdomen, and persistent hematuria for 10 days. From the urine culture and the microbiological and biochemical tests, the causative organism was identified as . The isolate was resistant to cephalosporins, while it was sensitive to ofloxacin, gentamicin, and imipenem. Clinicians should be aware of this rare cause of urinary tract infection (UTI), the choice of antibiotic, length of treatment, and necessity of prompt treatment in SCI patients.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8526209PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5840899DOI Listing

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