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

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

Tomislav Meštrović  1   2
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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

Tomislav Meštrović. Infection. 2019 Feb.

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.

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