Affiliation:
1. Departments of Pathology
2. Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Bacillus cereus
is an uncommon but potentially serious bacterial pathogen causing infections of the bloodstream, lungs, and central nervous system of preterm neonates. A case of bacteremia caused by
B. cereus
in a 19-day-old preterm neonate who was successfully treated with vancomycin, tobramycin, meropenem, and clindamycin is described. Implications for the diagnostic laboratory and clinicians when
Bacillus
species are detected in normally sterile sites are discussed, and the small numbers of infant infections proven to be due to this organism that have been described previously are reviewed.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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