Acute Cholecystitis Due to Lactococcus lactis and Single-Center Experience With Infections Due to Lactococcus spp.
Surg Infect (Larchmt)
; 25(4): 332-334, 2024 May.
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| ID: mdl-38696668
ABSTRACT
Background:
Lactococcus species are used to ferment milk to yogurt, cheese, and other products. The gram-positive coccus causes diseases in amphibia and fish and is a rare human pathogen. Patients andMethods:
A 51-year-old male underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute and chronic calculous cholecystitis. Lactococcus lactis was isolated from pus from his gallbladder empyema.Results:
Our institutional database was searched for other cases of Lactococcus spp. infections and four patients (2 males, 2 females; aged 51, 64, 78, and 80 years) were identified during a four-year period. The three other patients had positive blood cultures associated with pneumonia, toxic megacolon, and severe gastroenteritis. All isolates were monocultures with Lactococcus lactis (2), Lactococcus garvieae (1) and Lactococcus raffinolactis (1). Two patients died related to their sepsis. We report the second case of cholecystitis involving Lactococcus.Conclusions:
Lactococcus is a very rare pathogen mainly causing blood stream infections but needs to be considered to cause serious surgical infections in humans.Key words
Full text:
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Lactococcus
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Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
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Lactococcus lactis
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Cholecystitis, Acute
Limits:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Surg Infect (Larchmt)
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Surg. infect.,(Larchmt.)
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Surgical infections (Larchmont)
Journal subject:
BACTERIOLOGIA
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States
Country of publication:
United States