title: Corynebacterium urealyticum: a comprehensive review of an understated organism.
abstract: Corynebacterium urealyticum is a Gram positive, slow-growing, lipophilic, multi-drug resistant, urease positive micro-organism with diphtheroid morphology. It has been reported as an opportunistic nosocomial pathogen and as the cause of a variety of diseases including but not limited to cystitis, pyelonephritis, and bacteremia among others. This review serves to describe C. urealyticum with respect to its history, identification, laboratory investigation, relationship to disease and treatment in order to allow increased familiarity with this organism in clinical disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Nagla
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Salem
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Lamyaa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Salem
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saber
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Ghada
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ismail
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Martin H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Bluth
keywords: Corynebacterium urealyticum; bacteremia; cystitis; microorganisms; pyelonephritis