Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia

Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia

Bacillus cereus can cause serious, life-threatening, systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. The ability of microorganism to form biofilm on biomedical devices can be responsible for catheter-related bloodstream infections. Other manifestations of severe disease are meningitis, endocardit...

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Main Authors: Fatma Deniz Aygun, Fatih Aygun, Halit Cam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Pediatrics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6380929
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spelling doaj-9fa217b9b39a457ebcb12da9fd7e79592020-11-24T23:23:18ZengHindawi LimitedCase Reports in Pediatrics2090-68032090-68112016-01-01201610.1155/2016/63809296380929Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic AcidemiaFatma Deniz Aygun0Fatih Aygun1Halit Cam2Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, 34098 Istanbul, TurkeyDepartment of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, 34098 Istanbul, TurkeyDepartment of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, 34098 Istanbul, TurkeyBacillus cereus can cause serious, life-threatening, systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. The ability of microorganism to form biofilm on biomedical devices can be responsible for catheter-related bloodstream infections. Other manifestations of severe disease are meningitis, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, and surgical and traumatic wound infections. The most common feature in true bacteremia caused by Bacillus is the presence of an intravascular catheter. Herein, we report a case of catheter-related bacteremia caused by B. cereus in a patient with propionic acidemia.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6380929
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Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia
Case Reports in Pediatrics
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title Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia
title_short Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia
title_full Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia
title_fullStr Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia
title_full_unstemmed Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia
title_sort successful treatment of bacillus cereus bacteremia in a patient with propionic acidemia
publisher Hindawi Limited
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publishDate 2016-01-01
description Bacillus cereus can cause serious, life-threatening, systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. The ability of microorganism to form biofilm on biomedical devices can be responsible for catheter-related bloodstream infections. Other manifestations of severe disease are meningitis, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, and surgical and traumatic wound infections. The most common feature in true bacteremia caused by Bacillus is the presence of an intravascular catheter. Herein, we report a case of catheter-related bacteremia caused by B. cereus in a patient with propionic acidemia.
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