Bacillus cereus Bloodstream Infection in a Preterm Neonate Complicated by Late Meningitis

Central nervous system infections caused by Bacillus cereus have rarely been reported in infants. In this paper, the case of a 2-month-old low-birth-weight female who developed meningitis 45 days after resolution of a bloodstream infection (BSI) is described. The pulsed-field gel electrophoresis res...

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Autores principales: Horii, Toshinobu, Tamai, Kiyoko, Notake, Shigeyuki, Yanagisawa, Hideji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22924139
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/358789
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author Horii, Toshinobu
Tamai, Kiyoko
Notake, Shigeyuki
Yanagisawa, Hideji
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description Central nervous system infections caused by Bacillus cereus have rarely been reported in infants. In this paper, the case of a 2-month-old low-birth-weight female who developed meningitis 45 days after resolution of a bloodstream infection (BSI) is described. The pulsed-field gel electrophoresis results revealed that the patterns of both B. cereus isolates responsible for the acute meningitis and for the prior bacteraemic episode were closely related. Although the source of the infection from within the patient was not clear, it is suggested that the B. cereus BSI developed in the neonate was complicated by acute meningitis.
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spelling pubmed-34246442012-08-24 Bacillus cereus Bloodstream Infection in a Preterm Neonate Complicated by Late Meningitis Horii, Toshinobu Tamai, Kiyoko Notake, Shigeyuki Yanagisawa, Hideji Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Central nervous system infections caused by Bacillus cereus have rarely been reported in infants. In this paper, the case of a 2-month-old low-birth-weight female who developed meningitis 45 days after resolution of a bloodstream infection (BSI) is described. The pulsed-field gel electrophoresis results revealed that the patterns of both B. cereus isolates responsible for the acute meningitis and for the prior bacteraemic episode were closely related. Although the source of the infection from within the patient was not clear, it is suggested that the B. cereus BSI developed in the neonate was complicated by acute meningitis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3424644/ /pubmed/22924139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/358789 Text en Copyright © 2012 Toshinobu Horii et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Notake, Shigeyuki
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Bacillus cereus Bloodstream Infection in a Preterm Neonate Complicated by Late Meningitis
title Bacillus cereus Bloodstream Infection in a Preterm Neonate Complicated by Late Meningitis
title_full Bacillus cereus Bloodstream Infection in a Preterm Neonate Complicated by Late Meningitis
title_fullStr Bacillus cereus Bloodstream Infection in a Preterm Neonate Complicated by Late Meningitis
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title_short Bacillus cereus Bloodstream Infection in a Preterm Neonate Complicated by Late Meningitis
title_sort bacillus cereus bloodstream infection in a preterm neonate complicated by late meningitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424644/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/358789
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