Diptheroids can cause nosocomial UTI and be multidrug resistant: A case report of Corynebacterium striatum, first from India Gram positive bacilli in the urine are usually dismissed as contaminants in urine specimens as these are commensal flora of skin and mucous membranes.Coryn... MB Kumar,S ...
C. striatum: C. striatum has been detected on healthy skin or nasopharynx, but has increasingly been recovered from serious infections such as bacteremia, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, breast abscess, and pulmonary infections/pneumonia (Fernandez Guerrero et al., 2013; Renom et al., 2014; Verroken...
Common isolates of bacterial prostatitis include the uropathogenic speciesProteusandKlebsiella; likeC. urealyticum, these bacteria have urease activity, however, they do not cause encrustation [39]. Nonetheless, urease activity is considered an important virulence factor involved in UTI and bacterial prost...