A microbial game of whack-a-mole: clinical case series of the urethral uncloaking phenomenon caused by Corynebacterium glucuronolyticum in men treated for Chlamydia trachomatis urethritis

Infection. 2019 Feb;47(1):121-124. doi: 10.1007/s15010-018-1211-8. Epub 2018 Aug 30.

Abstract

Corynebacterium glucuronolyticum is a rare and neglected, but increasingly recognized bacterial agent of infectious urethritis and other genitourinary syndromes in men. This is the first description of its proclivity to resurface as a cause of sustained urethritis in male patients previously treated for Chlamydia trachomatis, which represents a phenomenon that has to be differentiated from a simple post-treatment overgrowth of a colonizing agent.

Keywords: Chlamydia trachomatis; Corynebacterium glucuronolyticum; Men; Urethritis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Chlamydia Infections / drug therapy*
  • Chlamydia trachomatis / physiology
  • Corynebacterium / isolation & purification*
  • Corynebacterium Infections / diagnosis*
  • Corynebacterium Infections / drug therapy
  • Corynebacterium Infections / microbiology
  • Croatia
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Urethritis / diagnosis*
  • Urethritis / drug therapy
  • Urethritis / microbiology
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents