HEALTH

The Case of the Drunken Teetotaler

Auto-brewery syndrome is a rare multifactorial disease in which endogenous alcohol production occurs due to an overpopulation of fermentable microorganisms (especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida species but also bacteria like Klebsiella pneumoniae). Even in the healthy population, there is a low level of endogenous fermentation that is not enough to cause alcohol intoxication…

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