I agree with some of the previous follow-up posts. Talking about flow
cytometry to isolate a bacterium from a clinical specimen is ludicrous.
Enteric gram-negative rods (as opposed to many other organisms) grow
well on standard clinical media, and if you have to resort to such wild
methods to prove, it wasn't really there in the first place.
If the patient had Enterobacter isolated from his blood, and also had
prostatitis with cultures revealing only coag- staph, then the source
of his sepsis was probably not the prostate!
