Lactobacillus rhamnosus a cause of Gram-positive rods bacteremia after prophylactic probiotic consumption

Souheil Zayet; Julie Plantin; Clément Triquenot; Vincent Gendrin; Nabil Belfeki; Timothée Klopfenstein

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101177

Lactobacillus rhamnosus a cause of Gram-positive rods bacteremia after prophylactic probiotic consumption

New Microbes New Infect. 2023 Sep 11:54:101177. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101177. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Authors

Souheil Zayet¹, Julie Plantin², Clément Triquenot³, Vincent Gendrin¹, Nabil Belfeki⁴, Timothée Klopfenstein¹

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases Department, Nord Franche-Comté Hospital, 90400, Trevenans, France.
² Microbiology Department, Nord Franche-Comté Hospital, 90400, Trevenans, France.
³ Surgery Department, Nord Franche-Comté Hospital, 90400, Trevenans, France.
⁴ Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology Department, Groupe Hospitalier Sud Ile de France, 77000, Melun, France.

Abstract

•Lactobacillus rhamnosus bacteremia was diagnosed in a patient with radiation enteritis after prophylactic probiotic consumption.•L. rhamnosus was identified by culture and MALDI-TOF-MS.•L. rhamnosus may have high MIC values for amoxicillin.•In case of L. rhamnosus bacteremia, bowel diseases should be considered as a possible source of infections.