Lactobacillus rhamnosus Endocarditis After Upper Endoscopy

Lactobacillus rhamnosus is commonly found in gastrointestinal flora and used in probiotics but is a rare human pathogen. We report a case of L. rhamnosus endocarditis following upper endoscopy in a frequent consumer of yogurt containing the organism, who required aortic and mitral valve replacement...

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Autores principales: Aaron, Justin G., Sobieszczyk, Magdalena E., Weiner, Shepard D., Whittier, Susan, Lowy, Franklin D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5499731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28695143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx085
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description Lactobacillus rhamnosus is commonly found in gastrointestinal flora and used in probiotics but is a rare human pathogen. We report a case of L. rhamnosus endocarditis following upper endoscopy in a frequent consumer of yogurt containing the organism, who required aortic and mitral valve replacement for cure.
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spelling pubmed-54997312017-07-10 Lactobacillus rhamnosus Endocarditis After Upper Endoscopy Aaron, Justin G. Sobieszczyk, Magdalena E. Weiner, Shepard D. Whittier, Susan Lowy, Franklin D. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Lactobacillus rhamnosus is commonly found in gastrointestinal flora and used in probiotics but is a rare human pathogen. We report a case of L. rhamnosus endocarditis following upper endoscopy in a frequent consumer of yogurt containing the organism, who required aortic and mitral valve replacement for cure. Oxford University Press 2017-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5499731/ /pubmed/28695143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx085 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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