Case report

Dual infection with E. coli and Puumala virus

Tomislava Skuhala orcid.org/0000-0003-0129-1519 ; Klinika za infektivne bolesti "Dr. Fran Mihaljević", Zagreb, Hrvatska
Mia Ajduković ; Klinika za infektivne bolesti "Dr. Fran Mihaljević", Zagreb, Hrvatska
Alemka Markotić ; Klinika za infektivne bolesti "Dr. Fran Mihaljević", Zagreb, Hrvatska
Višbja Škerk ; Klinika za infektivne bolesti "Dr. Fran Mihaljević", Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

Although urinary tract infections are common infections in women, and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is zoonotic in Croatia, a potential dual infection with uropathogen and hantaviruses is not normally suspected and diagnostically approached. Dual infections with hantaviruses and other pathogens, mostly with leptospira, are described. It is necessary in clinical and diagnostic approach, to also think of the possibility for dual infections, especially in more severe clinical forms of the disease. A combination of the two diseases can sometimes be challenging for diagnostics. Here we present a case of a 64-yearold female patient with confirmed dual infection with virus Puumala and E. coli.

Keywords

Dual infection; Escherichia coli; hantaviruses

Hrčak ID:

143366

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/143366

Publication date:

30.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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