Successful treatment of Corynebacterium urealyticum encrusted cystitis: A case report and literature review

Infezioni in Medicina

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-58

  Perciaccante, Antonio ^a   Pompeo, Maria Elena ^a   Fabi, Flavia ^a   Venditti, Mario ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium urealyticum; Encrusted cystitis; Teicoplanin

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TEICOPLANIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREALYTICUM; CYSTITIS; CYSTOSCOPY; DYSURIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCRUSTED CYTITIS; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MALE; NEPHROSTOMY; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; URETER STENT; URETHRA DISEASE; URINALYSIS; URINE CULTURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APATITES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYSTITIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MALE; NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; PHOSPHATES; PRECIPITATION; PYELITIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; STENTS; TEICOPLANIN; UREASE;

EID: 34248524333     PISSN: 11249390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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