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The<jats:italic>Staphylococcus cohnii<\/jats:italic>ssp.<jats:italic>cohnii<\/jats:italic>is not able to colonize the urogenital apparatus but it is the most frequently responsible for blood culture contamination even if it can sustain, in particular conditions, systemic infections.<jats:italic>Case Presentation<\/jats:italic>. We report the case of a 72-year-old man who is under observation for pain and swelling of the left hemiscrotum associated to high fever. The scrotal ultrasound shows the presence of a left intra-scrotal abscess with didymus, epididymis, and intact didymus-epididymis tunicae. The blood culture executed for evening fever during antibiotic therapy has underlined an infection with<jats:italic>Propionibacterium acnes<\/jats:italic>. A following blood culture has shown an increase in<jats:italic>Staphylococcus cohnii<\/jats:italic>ssp.<jats:italic>cohnii<\/jats:italic>. Due to fever the patient has undergone left orchifunicolectomy with inguino-scrotal toilet. The anatomical pathological examination has also shown the presence of nonspecific granulomatous inflammation compatible with<jats:italic>Propionibacterium acnes<\/jats:italic>infection.<jats:italic>Conclusion<\/jats:italic>. The onset of an intrascrotal abscess likely sustained by<jats:italic>Propionibacterium acnes<\/jats:italic>complicated by a possible systemic<jats:italic>Staphylococcus cohnii<\/jats:italic>ssp.<jats:italic>cohnii<\/jats:italic>suprainfection is an exceptional event that, in our case, has been resolved with surgical toilet.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2012\/313694","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,11,27]],"date-time":"2012-11-27T21:01:28Z","timestamp":1354050088000},"page":"1-4","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Intrascrotal Abscess,<i>Propionibacterium acnes<\/i>and<i>Staphylococcus cohnii<\/i>ssp.<i>cohnii<\/i>: A Case Report and Review of the Literature"],"prefix":"10.1155","volume":"2012","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1713-8770","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Masciovecchio","family":"Stefano","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life, Health, & Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, \u201cGiuseppe Mazzini\u201d General Hospital, Teramo, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alessandro","family":"Del Rosso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life, Health, & Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, \u201cGiuseppe Mazzini\u201d General Hospital, Teramo, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pietro","family":"Saldutto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life, Health, & Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, \u201cGiuseppe Mazzini\u201d General Hospital, Teramo, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Giuseppe","family":"Paradiso Galatioto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life, Health, & Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, \u201cGiuseppe Mazzini\u201d General Hospital, Teramo, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Carlo","family":"Vicentini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life, Health, & Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, \u201cGiuseppe Mazzini\u201d General Hospital, Teramo, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","reference":[{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1600-0625.2009.00890.x"},{"key":"2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.idc.2008.10.001"},{"key":"3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1586\/eri.11.137"},{"key":"4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1469-0691.2009.02703.x"},{"key":"5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.micpath.2008.10.013"},{"key":"7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijmm.2010.08.014"},{"issue":"10","key":"8","first-page":"1329","volume":"37","year":"1991","journal-title":"Hinyokika Kiyo"},{"issue":"10","key":"9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"778","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1600-0463.2012.02905.x","volume":"120","year":"2012","journal-title":"Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica"},{"issue":"4","key":"10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1885","DOI":"10.1128\/AAC.05552-11","volume":"56","journal-title":"Antimicrob Agents Chemother"},{"key":"11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1086\/502584"},{"issue":"1","key":"12","first-page":"51","volume":"23","year":"2006","journal-title":"Anales de Medicina Interna"},{"issue":"2","key":"13","first-page":"107","volume":"4","year":"1996","journal-title":"Clinical performance and quality health care"},{"issue":"2","key":"14","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"155","DOI":"10.33073\/pjm-2011-022","volume":"60","year":"2011","journal-title":"Polish Journal of Microbiology"},{"key":"15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/modpathol.2012.80"}],"container-title":["Case Reports in Urology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/downloads.hindawi.com\/journals\/criu\/2012\/313694.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/downloads.hindawi.com\/journals\/criu\/2012\/313694.xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/downloads.hindawi.com\/journals\/criu\/2012\/313694.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,17]],"date-time":"2020-07-17T01:41:27Z","timestamp":1594950087000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.hindawi.com\/journals\/criu\/2012\/313694\/"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2012]]},"references-count":14,"alternative-id":["313694","313694"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1155\/2012\/313694","relation":{},"ISSN":["2090-696X","2090-6978"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2090-696X","type":"print"},{"value":"2090-6978","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2012]]}}}