ABSTRACT
This lipid-requiring cutaneous coryneform causes serious local and systemic infection in immunocompromised patients, especially those with neutropenia. The species is characterized by multiple antibiotic resistance except to vancomycin. It is a major nosocomial pathogen. Corynebacterium urealyticum is a urease-positive, lipophilic, multiple antibiotic-resistant species which causes urinary tract infections primarily in association with alkaliencrusted cystitis. C. urealyticum bacteremia occurs mainly in elderly long-term hospitalized patients who have been urologically manipulated.
