A cluster of Bacillus cereus bacteremia cases among injection drug users

Bacillus cereus is a ubiquitous spore-forming organism that is infrequently implicated in extraintestinal infections. The authors report three cases of B cereus bacteremia among injection drug users presenting within one month to an urban tertiary care hospital. Treatment with intravenous vancomycin...

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Autores principales: Benusic, Michael A, Press, Natasha M, Hoang, Linda MN, Romney, Marc G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pulsus Group Inc 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26015795
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description Bacillus cereus is a ubiquitous spore-forming organism that is infrequently implicated in extraintestinal infections. The authors report three cases of B cereus bacteremia among injection drug users presenting within one month to an urban tertiary care hospital. Treatment with intravenous vancomycin was successful in all three cases. While temporal association suggested an outbreak, molecular studies of patient isolates using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis did not suggest a common source. A review of the association of B cereus infections with heroin use and treatment of this pathogen is provided.
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spelling pubmed-44198122015-05-26 A cluster of Bacillus cereus bacteremia cases among injection drug users Benusic, Michael A Press, Natasha M Hoang, Linda MN Romney, Marc G Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol Case Report Bacillus cereus is a ubiquitous spore-forming organism that is infrequently implicated in extraintestinal infections. The authors report three cases of B cereus bacteremia among injection drug users presenting within one month to an urban tertiary care hospital. Treatment with intravenous vancomycin was successful in all three cases. While temporal association suggested an outbreak, molecular studies of patient isolates using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis did not suggest a common source. A review of the association of B cereus infections with heroin use and treatment of this pathogen is provided. Pulsus Group Inc 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4419812/ /pubmed/26015795 Text en Copyright© 2015 Pulsus Group Inc. All rights reserved This open-access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits reuse, distribution and reproduction of the article, provided that the original work is properly cited and the reuse is restricted to noncommercial purposes. For commercial reuse, contact support@pulsus.com
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title_short A cluster of Bacillus cereus bacteremia cases among injection drug users
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26015795
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