Fatal Bacillus cereus endocarditis masquerading as an anthrax-like infection in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Case report

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-39

  Cone, Lawrence A ^a   Dreisbach, Luke ^a   Potts, Barbara E ^a   Comess, Barbara E ^a   Burleigh, William A ^a  

^a EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; GANCICLOVIR; GATIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FATALITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ABSCESS; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG COMBINATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; SKIN ULCER;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTHRAX; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BRAIN DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PENICILLINS; SKIN ULCER; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 17944382811     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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