Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Diagnostic difficulties of Lactobacillus casei bacteraemia in immunocompetent patients: A case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Diagnostic difficulties of Lactobacillus casei bacteraemia in immunocompetent patients A case report Chiara Tommasi 1 Francesco Equitani2 Marcello Masala3 Milva Ballardini3 Marco Favaro4 Marcello Meledandri3 Carla Fontana4 Pasquale Narciso1 and Emanuele Nicastri1 Address National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI L. Spallanzani via portuense 00149 Rome Italy 2S. Filippo Neri General Hospital -Department of Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy via Martinotti 00135 Rome Italy 3S. Filippo Neri General Hospital via Martinotti 00135 Rome Italy and 4Department of Microbiology Polyclinic of Tor Vergata viale Oxford 00133 Rome Italy Email ChiaraTommasi - Francesco Equitani - fequitani@ Marcello Masala - marmasala@ Milva Ballardini - Marco Favaro - favaro@ Marcello Meledandri - Carla Fontana - fontana@ Pasquale Narciso - narciso@ Emanuele Nicastri - enicastri@ Corresponding author Published 30 September 2008 Received 17 January 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 315 doi 1752-1947-2-315 Accepted 30 September 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 315 2008 Tommasi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Lactobacilli are currently proposed as probiotic agents in several dietary products. In blood cultures they are usually considered as contaminants but in recent years they have been recognized as causal infectious agents of endocarditis urinary tract infections meningitis intraabdominal infections and .
