Table 4.

Isolation of lactobacilli from clinical cases of systemic infections.

Patient’s age (year)/sex	Diagnosis	Underlying condition (s)	Organism (s) isolated	Therapy; duration of the therapy	Outcome	Ref.
46/M	Bacteremia	Short-bowel syndrome, history of Enterococcus faecalis aortic valve endocarditis, Klebsiella pneumonia bacteremia & candidemia.	L. confuses; isolated from blood culture.	Piperacillin-tazobactam & gentamicin, 4 weeks.	Recovered.	[94]
21/F	Bacteremia	Fever, drownsiness & stiff neck.	L. helvetica; isolated from blood culture.	Amoxicillin & gentamicin, 10 days; clindamycin, 15 days.	Recovered	[95]
59/F	Bacteremia	Hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, history of breast cancer with conservative surgery & kidney stone.	L. jensenii; isolated from blood & urine culture.	Ampicillin, 2 weeks.	Recovered	[96]
53/M	Endocarditis	History of rheumatic fever.	L. casei; isolated from the blood & bone marrow.	Valve replacement surgery and was treated with doxycycline.	Recovered	[97]
74/F	Liver abscess	Hypertension, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus & pneumonia.	L. rhamnosus; isolated from blood culture.	Ciprofloxacin & clindamycin, 6 weeks.	Recovered	[98]