Corynebacterium glucuronolyticum causing genitourinary tract infection: Case report and review of the literature.

ABSTRACT: Corynebacterium species are increasingly recognized as opportunistic pathogens. A growing number of taxonomic studies has yielded a description of numerous new Corynebacterium species, such as those related to the urogenital tract, with Corynebacterium glucuronolyticum found to be rarely involved in genitourinary tract infections, particularly in male individuals. In this report, we describe a urethritis case caused by C. glucuronolyticum in a 37-year-old, apparently healthy male, who complained mild pain in the lower abdomen, with several urinary symptoms. While urethral and semen specimens did not yield positive results for microbiological evaluation, cultures of urine samples revealed the monomicrobial growth on blood-containing media of tiny colonies after 24 h of incubation, clearly e

SUBMITTER: Gherardi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4672622 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature