Acinetobacter junii as a rare pathogen of urinary tract infection

Abdelrhman Abo-Zed; Mohamed Yassin; Tung Phan

doi:10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101209

Acinetobacter junii as a rare pathogen of urinary tract infection

Urol Case Rep. 2020 Apr 14:32:101209. doi: 10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101209. eCollection 2020 Sep.

Authors

Abdelrhman Abo-Zed¹, Mohamed Yassin¹, Tung Phan²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
² Division of Clinical Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Abstract

Acinetobacter junii is one of more than 50 different species belonging to the genus Acinetobacter. This bacterium is rarely reported to cause human infections. Here we described a rare case of Acinetobacter junii, which grew in urine culture approximately one month after the patient was discharged from the hospital with antibiotics for a urinary tract infection, which caused left obstructing renal calculi requiring nephrostomy tube placement.

Keywords: Acinetobacter junii; Urinary tract infection; VITEK.

Publication types

Case Reports