Horton Lucy E, Mehta Sanjay R, Aganovic Lejla, Fierer Joshua
Department of Medicine, VA San Diego Healthcare System and University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, California.
Department of Radiology, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Feb 9;5(2):ofy015. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy015. eCollection 2018 Feb.
is an underappreciated cause of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in older adults. The diagnosis may be missed due to difficulty isolating and identifying the organism. Complications can result because the organism is intrinsically resistant to 2 commonly used drugs to treat UTI, as illustrated by this case.
是老年人尿路感染(UTIs)的一个未得到充分认识的病因。由于难以分离和鉴定该病原体,可能会漏诊。正如本病例所示,由于该病原体对两种常用的治疗UTI的药物具有内在耐药性,可能会导致并发症。