Symptoma

Bacillus Cereus

Bacillus cereus typically presents as a gastrointestinal infection, but rarely manifests as systemic disease. This report describes a case of B. cereus-related endocarditis that presented as a sickle cell crisis and bacteremia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Developmental Delay

    At 15 months of age, the patient had mild developmental delay, cortical blindness, and sensorineural hearing loss. The clinical case is described and difficulties in the management of B. cereus meningoencephalitis in infants are discussed. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Sore Throat

    We report on a 15-year-old girl with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, who fell into a somnolent state after presenting with a 12-hour history of fever, muscle soreness, myalgia in both calves, sore throat, and vomiting. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Acute Abdomen

    Over a 2-day period, her clinical condition deteriorated rapidly, with the appearance of acute abdomen. Computed tomography investigation of the abdomen showed a liver abscess (diameter approximately 3 cm). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Regurgitation

    Echocardiography showed severe aortic regurgitation with an oscillating vegetation seen on the right coronary cusp of the aortic valve. The blood cultures grew Bacillus cereus. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Heart Disease

    Bacillus cereus is a rare cause of endocarditis, typically associated with intravenous drug abuse, rheumatic heart disease, prosthetic heart valves, pacemakers, or immunodeficiency. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

    In November 2010, an afebrile infant with congenital heart disease was admitted to TCH for respiratory distress and developed fever and became clinically septic 4 days after an internal jugular line was placed. [cdc.gov]

  • Fracture

    We report a case of B. cereus surgical site infection after fasciotomy in a healthy 31 year-old man admitted to the orthopedic ward with a comminuted fracture of the tibia. No source was identified. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Myalgia

    We report on a 15-year-old girl with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, who fell into a somnolent state after presenting with a 12-hour history of fever, muscle soreness, myalgia in both calves, sore throat, and vomiting. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Irritability

    On day 8, there were frequent apnoeic attacks, and on day 30, marked irritability developed, as did intermittent stiffening of all four limbs. The anterior fontanelle was bulging and tense, and the cerebrospinal fluid was found to be turbid. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The treatment consisted of appropriate antibiotics, G-CSF and removal of the central venous line. Infection control and nearly full neurological recovery was achieved. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

However, preventing a fatal prognosis in patients with B. cereus infection has not yet been achieved due to insufficient clinical investigations. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Fulminant sepsis caused by Bacillus cereus in patients with hematologic malignancies: analysis of its prognosis and risk factors. Leuk Lymphoma. 2010;51(5):860–9. View Article PubMed Google Scholar Kassar R, Hachem R, Jiang Y, Chaftari A, Raad I. [ann-clinmicrob.biomedcentral.com]

The panC sequence based phylogenetic affiliation of the B. cereus strains, together with findings of the retrospective cohort analyses, helped determining their etiological role. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Two cases with nosocomial diarrhoea were apparently epidemiologically related (same time and ward), a third case was unrelated with respect to time and location. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Bacillus cereus Causal agent Bacillus cereus food poisoning is a gastrointestinal intoxication caused by toxins produced by the Bacillus cereus bacterium. [healthknowledge.org.uk]

Since beta cell dysfunction and cell death plays a key role in pathophysiology of diabetes, these results render it possible that a long-termed uptake of cereulide-contaminated food could have some implications in diabetes ( Vangoitsenhoven et al., 2014 [frontiersin.org]

Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wenzhou, China. 4 4 College of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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