| actinobaculum schaalii, a common uropathogen in elderly patients, denmark. | actinobaculum schaalii can cause urinary tract infections and septicemia but is difficult to identify by cultivation. to obtain a fast diagnosis and identify a. schaalii, we developed a taqman real-time quantitative pcr. routine urine samples were obtained from 177 hospitalized patients and 75 outpatients in viborg county, denmark, in 2008-2009. the pcr detected a. schaalii in 22% of samples from patients >60 years of age. this assay showed that a. schaalii is more common than implied by routine ... | 2010 | 20031046 |