title: Successful Treatment of Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, 34098 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Fatma Deniz
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7830-7155
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Aygun
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, 34098 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aygun
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, 34098 Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Halit
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cam