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Case Reports
. 2015 Aug;53(8):516-7.

Urinary Tract Infection with Candida glabrata in a Patient with Spinal Cord Injury

Monireh Rahimkhani  1 , Mostafa Saberian  1 , Alireza Mordadi  1 , Sajad Varmazyar  1 , Ali Tavakoli  1
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Case Reports

Urinary Tract Infection with Candida glabrata in a Patient with Spinal Cord Injury

Monireh Rahimkhani et al. Acta Med Iran. 2015 Aug.
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Abstract

Candida glabrata was thought to be a primarily non-pathogenic organism. However, with the ever-increasing population of immunocompromised individuals, it is considered to be an opportunistic pathogen. Patients with spinal cord injuries often using a long-term urinary catheter and are high risk for Urinary Tract Infections. This case report describes a patient with spinal cord injury (thoracic region) with a pure culture of Candida glabrata in a urine sample.

Keywords: Candida glabrata; Spinal cord injury; Urinary tract infection.

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