Identification of lactic acid bacteria isolated from human blood cultures

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Authors	ŠVEC Pavel ŠEVČÍKOVÁ Alena SEDLÁČEK Ivo BEDNÁŘOVÁ Jana SNAUWAERT Cindy LEFEBVRE Karen VANDAMME Peter VANCANNEYT Marc
Year of publication	2007
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	FEMS immunology and medical microbiology
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1574-695X.2006.00199.x
Field	Microbiology, virology
Keywords	Lactobacillus; Leuconostoc; Weissella; blood culture; taxonomy
Description	Fifteen lactic acid bacteria strains were isolated from blood cultures from 15 different patients in the Faculty Hospital in Brno, Czech Republic. All strains were identified using biochemical tests and rep-PCR using the (GTG)5 primer. Doubtful identification results were confirmed by whole-cell protein analysis. The strains were assigned to the genera Lactobacillus (eight strains representing seven species), Leuconostoc (six strains representing four species) and Weissella (one strain). Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed using the E-test and revealed high-level resistance to co-trimoxazol, metronidazole, vancomycin and teicoplanin, but nearly all strains were susceptible to erythromycin, clindamycin, ampicillin and penicillin.
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