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Case Reports
. 1999 Jun;23(6):528-31.

[Kluyvera cryocrescens: a positive urine culture in a young girl with persistent proteinuria]

[Article in Spanish]
M Ortega Calvo  1 , R Delgado Zamora, P Fernández Arance, L J Elgorriaga Guillén, L Del Valle Vázquez, J Gutiérrez Caracuel
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Case Reports

[Kluyvera cryocrescens: a positive urine culture in a young girl with persistent proteinuria]

[Article in Spanish]
M Ortega Calvo et al. Actas Urol Esp. 1999 Jun.

Abstract

Kluyvera genus usually shows two kinds of species: K. ascorbata and K. cryocrescens, DNA hybridization let us to differentiate a third group: Kluyvera species 3. Its diagnosis is quite uncommon and its taxonomy have been recently clarified. We report here a ten years female record with a chronic proteinuria and a positive urine-culture for K. cryocrescens. Axetil cefuroxime treatment was absolutely succesful. Kluyvera infections are difficult on the whole to joint with some specific clinical features.

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