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What factors prompt you to treat enterococcus when isolated in polymicrobial culture from patients with urinary tract infection?

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Enterococcus is an organism that I would treat when isolated in a clinically significant positive urine culture, even when polymicrobial. Since Enterococcus produces a biofilm, it can essentially trap other organisms in and be seen in the setting of a polymicrobial infection. In this setting, I woul...

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