title: Testicular tumor like by "Corynebacterium thommsenii".
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the first case described of genitourinary infection by Corynebacterium Thommsenii in a man.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive study of a testicular infection by an atypical unknown germ in a patient, which was identified and diagnosed thank to the use of Polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We performed a bibliographic search of similar cases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We only found one case of pleural infection by Corynebacterium Thommsenii in the human being, with no case of genitourinary involvement described.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To date there is only one case described of infection by Corynebacterium Thommsenii in human beings, possibly due to underdiagnosis for the slow grow of this pathogen. Genetic amplification methods by PCR should be demanded more frequently by clinicians because they provide an advance in the microbiologic diagnosis is slow-growing pathogens.
authors.affiliation: Urology Department, Hospital Virgen de la Salud, Toledo, Spain. naggoga@yahoo.es <naggoga@yahoo.es>
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gómez García
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gomez Mampaso
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romero Molina
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gómez Rodríguez
mesh_terms: D003354:Corynebacterium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013733:Testicular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*