A 24-year-old female presents to your office with burning urination, urgency and frequency. She is sexually active. Urine cultures show catalase-positive, gram-positive cocci. The organism responsible for this patient's symptoms is most likely to be:

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A 24-year-old female presents to your office with burning urination, urgency and frequency.  She is sexually active.  Urine cultures show catalase-positive, gram-positive cocci.  The organism responsible for this patient's symptoms is most likely to be:

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Eductional Objective: saprophyticus is responsible for almost half of all UTIs in sexually active young women.  Staphylococcus saprophyticus belongs to coagulase negative staphylococci and is unique among these because it is resistant to novobiocin.

A 24-Year-Old Female Presents to Your Office with Burning Urination