Six cases of Lactobacillus bacteraemia: identification of organisms and antibiotic susceptibility and therapy

Scand J Infect Dis. 2003;35(6-7):404-8. doi: 10.1080/00365540310011830.

Abstract

Six cases of bacteraemia in hospitalized patients, 5 with a depressed immune status, were caused by lactobacilli. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell proteins and API 50 CH carbohydrate patterns assigned the causative agents to the species Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus curvatus, Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis and Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
  • Bacteremia / drug therapy*
  • Bacteremia / microbiology*
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Female
  • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / drug therapy*
  • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Lactobacillus / drug effects*
  • Lactobacillus / isolation & purification*
  • Lactobacillus / physiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents