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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2003, p. 3441-3444, Vol. 41, No. 7
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.3441-3444.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Preterm Neonate

Nicholaus J. Hilliard,1 Robert L. Schelonka,2 and Ken B. Waites1*

Departments of Pathology,1 Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 352492

Received 13 January 2003/ Accepted 19 March 2003

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.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Pathology, WP P230N, 619 19th St. South, Birmingham, AL 35249-7331. Phone: (205) 934-6421. Fax: (205) 975-4468. E-mail: waites{at}path.uab.edu.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2003, p. 3441-3444, Vol. 41, No. 7
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.3441-3444.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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