Complete Match of Streptococcus salivarius from Oral Saliva and Stool in a Patient with Hepatic Encephalopathy.

• Tác giả: Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Shunji Hayashi, Hisashi Hidaka, Kazue Horio, Chika Kusano, Masashi Mizokami, Nao Nomura, Yoshihiko Sakaguchi, Takashi Satoh, Akira Také, Haruki Uojima
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 949.59012 *Greece
• Thông tin xuất bản: Japan : Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 699761

Tóm tắt

We herein report a 67-year-old Japanese woman with liver cirrhosis caused by primary biliary cholangitis. The patient was admitted to the hospital with loss of consciousness. Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) was diagnosed after diagnostic imaging and symptom assessments. Molecular biology tests were performed on oral saliva and stool samples. The test results indicated sequence similarity between urease-positive S. salivarius in both oral saliva and stool, as revealed by the signals in the overlapping peaks. This bacterium can potentially increase ammonia production in the gut, leading to HE in patients with liver cirrhosis.