[Kluyvera cryocrescens: a positive urine culture in a young girl with persistent proteinuria]

Autor: Manuel Ortega-Calvo, Delgado Zamora R, Fernández Arance P, Lj, Elgorriaga Guillén, Del Valle Vázquez L, Gutiérrez Caracuel J
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Europe PubMed Central
ISSN: 0210-4806
Popis: Kluyvera 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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