Utilidad de la citometría de flujo en el diagnóstico de infecciones del tracto urinario por microorganismos exigentes: a propósito de un caso de cistitits aguda por Actinotignum schaalii

Is Propionimicrobium lymphophilum a new urinary tract infection cause?

“…In the case of UTIs caused by infrequent microorganisms with demanding growth, the use of flow cytometry can be very useful not only as a screening method prior to urine culture. In the presence of a negative culture on standard media in a symptomatic patient with high bacteriuria detected by cytometry, we suggest seeding the sample on additional culture media, a strategy that allows isolation of demanding pathogens such as Aerococcus spp or Actinotignum schaalii [ 9 ].…”