Lactobacillus rhamnosus bacteremia in a kidney transplant recipient.
Diego Rodrigues FalciM H RigattoV V CantarelliA P ZavasckiPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2015)
Lactobacillus rhamnosus is a rare clinical pathogen. A case of bacteremia caused by L. rhamnosus in a kidney transplant recipient is described. Once considered only as a contaminant or a low-virulence organism, L. rhamnosus might be an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients. To our knowledge, this is the first report of primary bloodstream infection caused by L. rhamnosus in a kidney transplant recipient.