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Case Reports
. 2022 Mar 10;22(1):241.
doi: 10.1186/s12879-022-07229-1.

A case of a renal abscess caused by Salmonella bareilly in a previously healthy boy

Tomomi Nakamura  1 , Masaru Ido  1   2 , Masahiro Ogawa  3 , Naoya Sasaki  1 , Haruna Nakamura  4 , Yoshihiro Hasegawa  5 , Motoki Bonno  2 , Shigeki Tanaka  1   2
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A case of a renal abscess caused by Salmonella bareilly in a previously healthy boy

Tomomi Nakamura et al. BMC Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Background: Renal abscesses are relatively uncommon in children, and usually due to Gram-negative rods or Staphylococcus aureus, whereas abscesses caused by Salmonella are very rare.

Case presentation: We present the case of a previously healthy 10-year-old boy who had a renal abscess due to Salmonella bareilly. He responded well to treatment with antibiotics, and computed tomography (CT)-guided drainage of the abscess. His blood, urine and abscess aspirate cultures were sterile, but a broad-range 16S rDNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay of the aspirate followed by analysis of four Salmonella genes (fliC, fliD, sopE2, and spaO) identified S. bareilly as the causative agent.

Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of renal abscess caused by S. bareilly.

Keywords: Broad-range 16S rDNA PCR; Renal abscess; Salmonella bareilly; Single-nucleotide polymorphism.

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No competing interests to declare.

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Abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the patient, A horizontal and B vertical slices
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DNA sequence of the 16S rDNA PCR product amplified using DNA extracted from an aspirate as a template and 8UA and 1485B primers
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DNA sequence of the fliC PCR product amplified using DNA extracted from an aspirate as a template and fliC forward and reverse primers
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