[Kluyvera cryocrescens: a positive urine culture in a young girl with persistent proteinuria].
1999; National Institutes of Health; Volume: 23; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
Autores
Manuel Ortega‐Calvo, Ricardo Zamora, P Fernández Arance, L J Elgorriaga Guillén, L Del Valle Vázquez, J Gutiérrez Caracuel,
Tópico(s)Infections and bacterial resistance
ResumoKluyvera genus usually shows two kinds of species: K. ascorbata and K. cryocrescens, DNA hybridization let us to differentiate a third group: Kluyvera species 3. Its diagnosis is quite uncommon and its taxonomy have been recently clarified. We report here a ten years female record with a chronic proteinuria and a positive urine-culture for K. cryocrescens. Axetil cefuroxime treatment was absolutely succesful. Kluyvera infections are difficult on the whole to joint with some specific clinical features.
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