Persistent Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in 3 Persons Who Inject Drugs, San Diego, California, USA.

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Bacillus cereus is typically considered a blood culture contaminant; however, its presence in blood cultures can indicate true bacteremia. We report 4 episodes of B. cereus bacteremia in 3 persons who inject drugs. Multilocus sequence typing showed that the temporally associated infections were caused by unrelated clones.

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10.3201/eid2209.150647

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Schaefer, Gabrielle, Wesley Campbell, Jeffrey Jenks, Cari Beesley, Theodoros Katsivas, Alex Hoffmaster, Sanjay R Mehta, Sharon Reed, et al. (2016). Persistent Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in 3 Persons Who Inject Drugs, San Diego, California, USA. Emerging infectious diseases, 22(9). pp. 1621–1623. 10.3201/eid2209.150647 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/28633.

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Jeffrey Daniel Jenks

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