Retrospective Analysis of Paenibacillus urinalis Cultures Primarily Obtained from Sterile Sites in a Pediatric Population from Turkey
Esra Çiftci, Cüneyt Özakın, Sinem İrez Çetin, Oktay Rodoplu, Zeynep Gizem Ergün Özdel, Nazmiye Ülkü Tüzemen, Pelin Laleoğlu, Deniz Camcı Erten, Solmaz Çelebi, Mustafa Kemal Hacımustafaoğlu · 2026
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Esra Çiftci leads a ten-author team reviewing blood cultures that grew an unusual germ, Paenibacillus urinalis, in Turkish children, in a 2026 retrospective study. Such growth is usually dismissed as contamination, and almost nothing was known about it in children. Over five and a half years at one referral hospital, 170 hospitalised children had the germ in sterile-site cultures, nearly all from blood. Three wards, including newborn intensive care and cancer wards, supplied forty percent of cases.
Only five children grew the germ again in a follow-up culture, the main sign of true infection, and no child died. A hospital investigation found the germ in a third of clean packaged linens, over half of ward air samples, and two-thirds of patient skin swabs. They still urge care in judging cases in newborn units and young infants.
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| CREATOR | Esra Çiftci, Cüneyt Özakın, Sinem İrez Çetin, Oktay Rodoplu, Zeynep Gizem Ergün Özdel, Nazmiye Ülkü Tüzemen, Pelin Laleoğlu, Deniz Camcı Erten, Solmaz Çelebi, Mustafa Kemal Hacımustafaoğlu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |