Finding blood in your urine, particularly if you're not menstruating, can be frightening. But before you let your mind go to the scariest possible place, you should know that there are a number of different conditions that can cause blood to appear in your urine, many of them less serious than others. In fact, the most common cause in women is vaginal bleeding or normal menstrual bleeding. What Might Be Causing Blood in Urine. Drugs. Certain drugs, including blood thinners such as warfarin, can lead to blood in urine. Doctors often prescribe blood thinners if you have a heart or blood vessel disease, or if you have poor blood flow to your brain. Blood thinners reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke by reducing the formation of blood clots in your arteries and veins.
Spore-forming Serratia marcescens subsp. sakuensis subsp. nov., isolated from a domestic wastewater treatment tank.Ajithkumar B, Ajithkumar VP, Iriye R, Doi Y, Sakai T. A strain (KREDT) that formed endospores and produced the pigment prodigiosin was isolated from activated sludge.The presence of spores in cells of strain KREDT was evident upon electron microscopy examination, heat treatment and the detection of dipicolinic acid in the cells.Biochemical characteristics, and 16S rDNA sequence and DNA-DNA homology data identified strain KREDT as Serratia marcescens.ere, it is shown that strain KREDT (JCM 11315T = CIP 107489T) represents a novel subspecies of S. marcescens, for which the name Serratia marcescens subsp. sakuensis is proposed.
S. marcescens is implicated in a wide range of serious infections including pneumonia (51), lower respiratory tract infection (112), urinary tract infection (53), bloodstream infection, wound infection and meningitis (72, 74).f all Serratia species, S. marcescens is the most common clinical isolate and the most important human pathogen. S. marcescens is credited with a long fanatical history dating back to antiquity, when, because of its ability to produce a red pigment it was described as having âmasqueradedâ as blood (36).