A case of catheter-associated urinary tract infection caused by Trichosporon inkin
LI Jingling
YU Yi
XU Yunfeng
YUAN Xia
LI Shaojun
YANG Yonghui
Abstract：To report a case of catheter-related urinary tract infection caused by Trichosporon inkin.The patient,a 63-year-old male,suffered from frequent urination,urgency,and painful urination,as well as dull pain in the right waist.Through the culture and identification of the patients'clean midstream urine,indwelling double J tube,renal pelvis puncture urine,and bladder urine.Under different culture temperatures(25 ℃,35 ℃),two different forms of colonies appeared on the sandcastle petri dish.One is a milky white round colony with brain-like folds;the other is a colony with an obvious bulge in the middle and rich edge folds.After 96 hours of the Columbia blood agar plate culture,three radial straight lines of split agar appeared with the colony as the center.The identification result of VITEK 2 COMPACT was Trichosporon inkin.Flu-conazole(0.4 g/d)was given intravenously for one week and the symptoms of urinary tract infection were basically relieved.
Keywords：Trichosporon inkincatheter-related urinary tract infectionagar cracking phenomenon
Publication Date：2024-10-28
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 510-513,524 )