Open AccessEnterococcus hirae as a cause of bacteremic urinary tract infection: first case report from Turkey
Author(s) -
Heval Can Bilek,
Aydın Deveci,
Sema Ünal,
Yeliz Tanrıverdi Çaycı,
Esra Tanyel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of infection in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2036-6590
pISSN - 1972-2680
DOI - 10.3855/jidc.12522
Subject(s) - enterococcus hirae , bacteremia , medicine , ampicillin , urinary system , blood culture , sepsis , enterococcus , surgery , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Enterococcus hirae (E. hirae) constitutes less than 1% of the enterococci strains in human clinical specimens. In this article, we report the first case of urinary tract infection-related bacteremia due to E. hirae from Turkey.
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