Urinary Salmonella Enteritidis Carriage in a Patient Living with HIV
Abstract
Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS), a major public health problem worldwide, frequently causes gastrointestinal infections and can develop asymptomatic carriage. Isolation of NTS in urine and urinary carriage, are extremely rare and their frequency increases in the presence of predisposing factors. In today’s world where the rates of quinolone-resistant Salmonella spp. are rapidly increasing, the implementation of the correct treatment protocol, especially in patients in the risk group, is the most fundamental step to prevent the development of carriage. In this case report, an human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- infected patient with urinary carriage of Salmonella Enteritidis was presented. A 59-year-old male patient applied to the outpatient clinic with dysuric complaints. He was being followed for HIV infection and was receiving appropriate antiretroviral therapy. He had coronary artery disease, hypertension, chronic renal failure and nephrolithiasis. Physical examination was normal without fever. Salmonella spp. grew in urine culture and S.Enteritidis was reported by serotyping. The susceptibility profile was determined as sensitive to ampicillin, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole by disk diffusion and resistant to ciprofloxacin (MIC= 0.19 mg/L) by gradient test. Lower urinary tract infection (UTI) was considered and five-day cefixime treatment was started. The patient’s complaints did not improve after treatment and S.Enteritidis was grown again in…
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