RUDN Journal of Medicine (Dec 2013)

Photorhabdus asymbiotica — a new representative of the gram-negative microflora in urinary tract infections

  • V P Avdoshin,
  • O V Makarov,
  • A A Kirichek,
  • M S Shekhtman,
  • K S Kesh’yan

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 4
pp. 94 – 99

Abstract

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The article presents results of clinical case. New pathogen, a gram-negative bacterium Photorhabdus asymbiotica, was isolated. Identified a new causative agent of acute pyelonephritis on the background of urolithiasis — a gram-negative bacterium Photorhabdus asymbiotica, with high sensitivity to modern antibiotics, particularly to fluoroquinolones, eliminating the pathogen for 10 days.

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