Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia.
J Infect Chemother. 2020 May;26(5):513-515. doi: 10.1016/j.jiac.2019.12.017. Epub 2020 Jan 29.
Ureaplasma spp. usually causes genitourinary infections; few reports in the literature describe extragenital infections, usually in immunocompromised patients. We present a case of Ureaplasma parvum ventriculitis in an immunocompetent patient related to ventriculoperitoneal drainage and surgery. Ureaplasma parvum was detected with broad range 16S rRNA PCR and cultured on A8 agar.
脲原体属通常引起泌尿生殖系统感染;文献中很少有描述外生殖器感染的报道,通常发生在免疫功能低下的患者中。我们报告了一例免疫功能正常的患者与脑室腹腔分流术和手术相关的解脲脲原体脑室炎。采用广谱 16S rRNA PCR 检测到解脲脲原体,并在 A8 琼脂上培养。