Highly Resistant Metabolically Deficient Dwarf Mutant of Escherichia coli Is the Cause of a Chronic Urinary Tract Infection
AUTOR(ES)
Trülzsch, Konrad
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
We present the case of a 68-year-old diabetic woman who has been suffering from chronic urinary tract infections, recurring over a period of at least 5 years, caused by a slowly growing metabolically deficient dwarf mutant (MDD) of Escherichia coli. This MDD strain was auxotrophic for histidine, was resistant to multiple antibiotics, and showed atypical growth behavior. Colonies were tiny on routine media but were able to revert to normal growth after extended incubation. This strain was identified as E. coli by 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing, and virulence factor profiles were determined by PCR. Seven MDD isolates collected over the 5-year period were grown from midstream urine to significant colony counts and shown to belong to the same clonal group by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR. These MDDs were repeatedly misidentified by biochemical methods due to their slow growth and atypical colony morphology. This case highlights the importance of recognizing MDDs of Enterobacteriaceae in patients with chronic infections. To our knowledge this is the first report of an MDD of E. coli causing a chronic urinary tract infection.
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