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W J Z'Graggen1, H Fankhauser, F Lammer
1Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland. werner.zgraggen@insel.ch
Abstract:
An immunocompetent patient recovering from gallstone-induced pancreatitis had to be readmitted due to abdominal pain, fever, and rapid deterioration. Computed tomography guided needle aspiration established the diagnosis of pancreatic necrosis infection; microbiological investigations revealed monoinfection with Lactobacillus paracasei subspecies tolerans. To our knowledge, this is the first description of a pancreatic necrosis infection due to L. paracasei in an immunocompetent patient without any known risk factors for Lactobacillus infections.
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