A cluster of Bacillus cereus bacteremia cases among injection drug users

被引：16

作者：

Benusic, Michael A. ^{[1
]}

Press, Natasha M. ^{[2
]}

Hoang, Linda M. N. ^{[3
,4
]}

Romney, Marc G. ^{[4
,5
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Toronto, St Michaels Hosp, Dept Family Practice & Community Med, Publ Hlth & Prevent Med,Dalla Lana Sch Publ Hlth, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada

[2] Univ British Columbia, Div Infect Dis, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada

[3] Prov Hlth Serv Author, BC Publ Hlth Microbiol & Reference Lab, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada

[4] Univ British Columbia, Dept Pathol & Lab Med, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada

[5] St Pauls Hosp, Providence Hlth Care, Dept Pathol & Lab Med, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6, Canada

来源：

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES & MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY | 2015年 / 26卷 / 02期

关键词：

Bacillus cereus; Bacteremia; Contamination; Heroin; Injection drug users; HEROIN; ENDOCARDITIS; PANOPHTHALMITIS; ADDICT;

D O I：

10.1155/2015/482309

中图分类号：

R51 [传染病];

学科分类号：

100401 ;

摘要：

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.

引用

页码：103 / 104

页数：2

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