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Mycoplasms were isolated from 35 (16%) of 215 specimens collected from 20 crab-eating monkeys (Macaca irus), 9 green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) and from 9 common squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciurea). All these animals had been imported from South-East Asia, Africa and South America being apparently healthy. A total of 38 large and 20 small colony-mycoplasma strains were isolated from the nasal and oral cavity, urethra, vagina and rectal feces. The large colony-mycoplasmas could be differentiated into 5 groups on the basis of their biological and serological characteristics. Six and 7 of them were identified as M. orale 2 and M. salivarium, respectively. Twenty strains were clearly distinguished not only from M. orale 2 and M. salivarium, but also from such arginase positive species as M. orale 1, M. fermentans, M. hominis, M. arthritidis, M. maculosum and M. gateae. These were divided into 2 groups, comprising 9 and 11 strains, respectively, by growth inhibition as well as various biological tests. The remaining 5 strains were not identified serologically. The small colony-mycoplasmas were found to be urease-positive and appeared to be T-mycoplasmas, while not examined serologically.
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PMID:[Characterization of Mycoplasms isolated from imported nonhuman primates (author's transl)]. 81 74

The bacterial colonization of urethra and urine was studied over long periods in 16 hospitalized women with long-term indwelling bladder catheter. The cultured flora was polymicrobic and, except for Proteus mirabilis and Escherichia coli, rapidly changing. The colonization patterns showed marked inter-species variations. P. mirabilis was the species most commonly found, and in the urethra it was significantly more persistent than the other species. Unlike the other species, P. mirabilis was rarely found in urine without concomitant urethral growth. Prophylactic measures aimed to reduce the risk of permanent colonization by this pathogen, which is rendered particularly harmful by its urease production, should therefore be directed towards the urethra and the periurethral area.
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PMID:Bacterial colonization of the lower urinary tract in women with long-term indwelling urethral catheter. 636 78

Perineal urethrostomies are associated with complications that may mimic primary causes of feline lower urinary tract disorders. Though postoperative urethral strictures may be minimized by proficiency with an effective surgical technique, removal of the distal urethra may result in bacterial urinary tract infections in 25% to 30% of patients after surgery. Urinary tract infections caused by urease-producing microbes may induce struvite urolith formation. Thus the prophylactic benefits of minimizing recurrent urethral obstruction by urethrostomy must be weighed against a long-term predisposition to recurrent bacterial urinary tract infection and urolith formation.
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PMID:Feline perineal urethrostomy: a potential cause of feline lower urinary tract disease. 915 52

Massive urolithiasis of the penile urethra was observed in an adult pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) stranded on Topsail Island, North Carolina, USA. Calculi occupied the urethra from just distal to the sigmoid flexure to the tip of the penis for a length of 43 cm. A urethral diverticulum was present proximal to the calculi. The major portion of the multinodular urolith weighed 208 g and was 16 cm long x 3.7 cm diameter at the widest point. The urolith was composed of 100% struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate) and on culture yielded Klebsiella oxytoca, a urease-positive bacterium occasionally associated with struvite urolith formation in domestic animals. Reaction to the calculi was characterized histologically by moderate multifocal to coalescing plasmacytic balanitis and penile urethritis. Role of the urethrolithiasis in the whale's stranding is speculative but could have involved pain or metabolic perturbations such as uremia or hyperammonemia.
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PMID:Struvite penile urethrolithiasis in a pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps). 1546 32

The analysis of long-term results of complex surgical correction of urinary bladder extrophy in 83 patients has shown that 21 (25.3%) patients had concrements in the urethra. Multiple bacteriological tests detected urease-producing flora which was managed with specific antibacterial therapy. Two patients were exposed to extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy. Low-invasive lithotripsy was low effective and all the patients were operated. Chemical structure of the removed concrements was determined with x-ray difractometry. Recurrent concrements were found in 7 (33.3%) of 21 patients who had not received specific antibacterial therapy. All the stones detected were struvite. Thus, struvite concrements' risk in patients after surgical correction of urinary bladder extrophy can be reduced under the following conditions: suppression of urease-producing flora activity, catheterization regime compliance, systemic sanation of the artificial urinary bladder.
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PMID:[Secondary uroliths after surgical correction of urinary bladder extrophy]. 1825 17

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common and in general are caused by intestinal uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) ascending via the urethra. Microcompartment-mediated catabolism of ethanolamine, a host cell breakdown product, fuels the competitive overgrowth of intestinal E. coli, both pathogenic enterohemorrhagic E. coli and commensal strains. During a UTI, urease-negative E. coli bacteria thrive, despite the comparative nutrient limitation in urine. The role of ethanolamine as a potential nutrient source during UTIs is understudied. We evaluated the role of the metabolism of ethanolamine as a potential nitrogen and carbon source for UPEC in the urinary tract. We analyzed infected urine samples by culture, high-performance liquid chromatography, reverse transcription-quantitative PCR, and genomic sequencing. The ethanolamine concentration in urine was comparable to the concentration of the most abundant reported urinary amino acid, d-serine. Transcription of the eut operon was detected in the majority of urine samples containing E. coli screened. All sequenced UPEC strains had conserved eut operons, while metabolic genotypes previously associated with UTI (dsdCXA, metE) were mainly limited to phylogroup B2. In vitro ethanolamine was found to be utilized as a sole source of nitrogen by UPEC strains. The metabolism of ethanolamine in artificial urine medium (AUM) induced metabolosome formation and provided a growth advantage at the physiological levels found in urine. Interestingly, eutE (which encodes acetaldehyde dehydrogenase) was required for UPEC strains to utilize ethanolamine to gain a growth advantage in AUM, suggesting that ethanolamine is also utilized as a carbon source. These data suggest that urinary ethanolamine is a significant additional carbon and nitrogen source for infecting E. coli strains.
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PMID:Bacterial Microcompartment-Mediated Ethanolamine Metabolism in Escherichia coli Urinary Tract Infection. 3113 11