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Comments on Brevundimonas diminuta causing urinary tract infection
Posted by Dr. Durgadas G Naik on 01 Dec 2013 02:28:54 AM GMT Reviewed by Interested Peers

  • What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?

    A case report on UTI caused by Brevundimonas diminuta.


  • Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.

    There are not many references about this organism. Previously classified under Pseudomonas sp.


  • Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?

    Yes


  • Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?

    It is very difficult to verify, as it is only one case


  • If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?

    Not applicable


  • Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?

    Yes


  • Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?

    Authors need to give more information about this organism in intoduction. A brief account of other infections caused by ths organism and its role in HAI.

    Write organism name in italics

    Give complete picture of Blood, Neutrophils and lymphocytes number not given

    Discuss possible mechanism of Qunolone resistance

    Strengthen discussion part with some more recent references

    References section requires another 2-3 recent references


  • Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?

    Rare organism is isolated from UTI


  • Other Comments:

    NA

  • Competing interests:
    None
  • Invited by the author to review this article? :
    No
  • Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
    No
  • References:

    None

  • Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:

    I have 25 years of teaching, diagnostic, research experience & with Ph.D.

  • How to cite:  Naik D G.Comments on Brevundimonas diminuta causing urinary tract infection[Review of the article 'Brevundimonas diminuta causing urinary tract infection ' by N N].WebmedCentral 2013;4(12):WMCRW002900
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A case of Urinary tract infection with Brevundimonas diminuta
Posted by Dr. Venkataramana Kandi on 01 Oct 2013 03:45:08 PM GMT Reviewed by WMC Editors

  • What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?

    This is a case of UTI with an unusual bacteria (according to the authors). This bacterium was identified as Brevundimonas diminuta only withy the help of VITEK. It is just that this bacterium would have been  identified as Pseudomonas spp without the help of automated ID system. I personally believe that though ID of bacterium accurately is important for a clinical microbiologist, this case shows no specific underlying cause/predisposing factors of infection with Brevundimonas diminuta 


  • Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.

    I belive there is really nothing abnormal in this case warrenting its publication except that this bacterium iBrevundimonas diminuta is less heard off and is normally ID as Pseudomonas by conventional methods


  • Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?

    Not at all 

     

    Authors have not made clear about the blood culture, as the patient presented with fever, what was the need to do urine culture, were there any symptoms of UTI (obseved as the Patient is just 9 month old)


  • Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?

    Not at all

     

    since the patient was a pediatric age presented with fever a blood culture was always necessary, and what about stool examination/culture

     

    Many things have been ignored by the authors


  • If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?

    NA


  • Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?

    NA


  • Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?

    NA


  • Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?

    NA


  • Other Comments:

    Authors have just ID the bacterium and have ignored many aspects of case presentations

    I request authors to read some papers on how to write a case report

    Francoise Salager-Meyer. The Importance of medical Case reports. European Science editing. 2012; 38 (2): 38-39

    Wiwanitkit: The usefulness of case reports in managing emerging infectious disease. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:194.

    Ramana, K V. "Case Report Communications to a Scientific Journal: An Insight."American Journal of Medical Case Reports 1.1 (2013): 1-2.

  • Competing interests:
    None
  • Invited by the author to review this article? :
    Yes
  • Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
    Yes
  • References:

    Ramana KV, Kareem MA, Sarada C, Sebastian S, Lebaka R, Ratnamani MS, Rao R. Chryseomonas luteola bacteremia in a patient with left pyocele testis with Fournier's scrotal gangrene. Indian J Pathol Microbiol 2010;53:574-5 In article?CrossRef?PubMed? [15] Ramana et al.: Diphyllobothriasis in a nine-year-old child in India: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:332. In article? CrossRef?PubMed? [16] Ramana KV, Rao SD, Rao R, Mohanty SK, Wilson CG. Human Dipylidiasis: A Case Report of Dipylidium caninum Infection from Karimnagar. Online J Health Allied Scs. 2011;10(2):28 URL: http://www.ojhas.org/issue38/2011-2-28.htm In article? [17] Ramana KV, Kumar MV, Rao SD, Akhila R, Sandhya, et al. Pulmonary Cryptococcosis Secondary to Bronchial Asthma Presenting as Type I Respiratory Failure- A Case Report with Review of Literature. Virol Mycol 2012, 1:107. In article?CrossRef? [18] Kandi V, Lal SK, Akhila, Shruthi, Sandhya K, Simar H, Pranuthi M, Kumar MV, Anand K, Rao SD. Persistent pediatric gastro-intestinal myiasis: A case report of fly larval infestation with musca domestica with review of literature. J Global Infect Dis 2013;5:114-7.

  • Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:

    Practicing MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY for more than 10 years wityh more than 30 publications with 7 case reports

  • How to cite:  Kandi V .A case of Urinary tract infection with Brevundimonas diminuta[Review of the article 'Brevundimonas diminuta causing urinary tract infection ' by N N].WebmedCentral 2013;4(10):WMCRW002870
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