Clinical significance of mites in urine

J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Dec;43(12):6200-1. doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.12.6200-6201.2005.

Abstract

We report a case where a mite egg found in urine caused diagnostic confusion. The possibility of gut or bladder mite infection should be entertained only after repeated identification of mites in urine or stool samples from a symptomatic patient with no other cause for the symptoms and where the possibilities of contamination and spurious infection have been excluded.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Equipment Contamination*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mites / growth & development*
  • Ovum / ultrastructure*
  • Urine / parasitology*