Six cases of Lactobacillus bacteraemia: identification of organisms and antibiotic susceptibility and therapy.
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.
Arpi
Magnus
M
Arhus University Hospital, Skejby, Arhus, Denmark.
Vancanneyt
Marc
M
Swings
Jean
J
Leisner
Jørgen J
JJ
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology*; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D005260:Female; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents