CASE REPORT
Actinotignum schaalii and Aerococcus urinae as Etiology of Infected Kidney Cyst: A Diagnostic Challenge
Veronika Vorobieva Solholm Jensen1, 2, *, Rimtas Dargis1, Xiaohui Chen Nielsen1, Lothar Wiese3, Jens Jørgen Christensen1, 4
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2020Volume: 14
First Page: 247
Last Page: 251
Publisher ID: TOMICROJ-14-247
DOI: 10.2174/1874434602014010247
Article History:
Received Date: 02/01/2020Revision Received Date: 19/07/2020
Acceptance Date: 22/07/2020
Electronic publication date: 23/10/2020
Collection year: 2020
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The case presented here illustrates a sometimes complex disease presentation where interdisciplinary teamwork is essential. A 74-years-old woman with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary lung disease and a composite graft aortic valve implant was admitted to hospital with an episode of acute lower back pain combined with long-term fever. The final diagnoses of a left-sided, infected and radiologically evident kidney cyst caused by the urinary tract pathogens Actinotignum schaalii and Aerococcus urinae was established by the use of partial 16S/18S rRNA gene sequence analysis on kidney cyst drainage material taken after four weeks of relevant antibiotic therapy.