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Acute Pyelonephritis with Enterococcus hirae and Literature Review
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Ga Hee Lee, Hae Won Lee, Yoo Jin Lee, Bong Soo Park, Yang Wook Kim, Sihyung Park
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Urogenit Tract Infect 2017;12(1):49-53. Published online April 30, 2017
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- To control for acute infectious disease, identification of the causative agent and determining the antibiotic susceptibility of the pathogen are crucial. If a particular organism is rare and relevant etiological information is scarce, it becomes difficult to determine appropriate antibiotic and therapy duration. Enterococcus hirae is a pathogen that infects animals, but rarely causes human infections. We present two cases of E. hirae-related pyelonephritis with successful treatment. Herein, our experience is discussed with relevant literature review.
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