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CASE REPORT
Pathogenic Sarcina in urine
  1. Karthik Bommannan1,
  2. Balan Louis Gaspar2,
  3. Man Updesh Singh Sachdeva1
  1. 1Department of Hematology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
  2. 2Department of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Man Updesh Singh Sachdeva, drmanupdeshpgi{at}yahoo.co.in

Summary

Sarcina is a Gram-positive anaerobic coccus that has been consistently reported in the upper gastrointestinal tract biopsies of patients with evidence of gastric stasis. The pathogenic role of Sarcina in humans is not entirely known. We describe an infant who was surgically treated for posterior urethral valve and the urine showed pathogenic Sarcina.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-216991

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors KB, BLG and MUSS contributed equally in reporting and writing the paper.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.