Fungemia due to Lachancea fermentati: a case report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Summary of positive cultures during hospitalization

Hospital day of culture^a	Site of isolation	Organism(s) isolated
Day 3	Peritoneal fluid	Eggerthalla lenti
Day 5	Blood	Lachancea fermentati
Day 6	Sputum	L. fermentati
	Peritoneal fluid	L. fermentati, Enterococcus spp., Lactobacillus
Day 8	Sputum	L. fermentati, Candida rugosa
Day 9	Peritoneal fluid	L. fermentati
Day 10	Peritoneal fluid	L. fermentati
Day 11	Peritoneal fluid	L. fermentati
Day 12	Peritoneal fluid	L. fermentati
Day 15	Peritoneal fluid	L. fermentati
	Sputum	L. fermentati
Day 16	Bile	L. fermentati, coagulase negative staphylococcus
Day 24	Peritoneal fluid	L. fermentati
Day 36	Abdominal abscess	L. fermentati, Candida parapsilosis, Bacteroides spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Clostridium spp.
Day 46	Sputum	C. parapsilosis, coagulase negative staphylococcus
Day 50	Sputum	C. parapsilosis, coagulase negative staphylococcus

^aNote that the patient also had a peritoneal fluid culture positive for Escherichia coli prior to admission.

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