How safe is safe?--a case of Lactobacillus paracasei ssp. paracasei endocarditis and discussion of the safety of lactic acid bacteria.
We report a case of endocarditis due to Lactobacillus paracasei ssp. paracasei, which could be distinguished from Lactobacillus strains used for the fermentation of dairy products by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction. The safety of biotechnical lactic acid bacteria use is also discussed.
Soleman
Nadia
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Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine IV, Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
Laferl
Hermann
H
Kneifel
Wolfgang
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Tucek
Gerhard
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Budschedl
Erich
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Weber
Heinz
H
Pichler
Hannes
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Mayer
Helmut K
HK
D000368:Aged; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D003611:Dairy Products / Q000382:microbiology*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D005516:Food Microbiology; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D019936:Probiotics / Q000009:adverse effects; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique; D013045:Species Specificity