A case of urinary tract infection caused by Kocuria spp and identified by conventional methods

Year : 2016 | Volume : 4 | Issue : 2 Page : 64 - 66

Venkataramana Kandi¹, Padmawali Palange ², Ritu Vaish ³, Vinod Kale ⁴, Maheshwar Reddy Kandi ⁵, Mohan Rao Bhoomagiri ⁶

^1,2,3Assistant Professor ,⁴,Post graduate student,⁶Professor,Department of Microbiology, Prathima Institute of Medical sciences, Karimnagar,Telangana,India, 5Post graduate student,Department of Microbiology,Chalmeda Anand Rao Institute of Medical Sciences, Karimnagar,Telangana,India.

Address for correspondence: Dr. Venkataramana Kandi, Assistant Professor , Department of Microbiology, Prathima Institute of Medical sciences, Karimnagar,Telangana,India.

Email: ramana_20021@rediffmail.com

Abstract

Introduction:We report a rare case of urinary tract infection caused by uncommon gram positive cocci, Kocuria spp, belonging to the phylum Actinobacteria and the family Micrococcaeae. These bacteria although are frequently isolated in clinical specimens, were till recently ignored as common laboratory and specimen contaminants. Kocuria spp were also misidentified either as coagulase negative Staphylococci (CoNS) or as Micrococci due to their uncharacteristic morphological, cultural and biochemical characteristics.

Keywords : Kocuria spp, Staphylococcus spp, Micrococcus spp