Bacillus cereus panophthalmitis associated with injection drug use

Nilay Kumar; Neetika Garg; Nilesh Kumar; Nicholas Van Wagoner

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2014.01.019

Bacillus cereus panophthalmitis associated with injection drug use

Int J Infect Dis. 2014 Sep:26:165-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.01.019. Epub 2014 Jul 9.

Authors

Nilay Kumar¹, Neetika Garg², Nilesh Kumar³, Nicholas Van Wagoner⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, 1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: nilaykumar83@gmail.com.
² Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

PMID: 25016038
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.01.019

Abstract

We report a case of rapidly progressive vision loss in a young woman with a history of injection drug use. Subsequent enucleation of the affected eye was done and Bacillus cereus grew on tissue culture. B. cereus is a rare cause of endogenous endophthalmitis due to hematogenous seeding of the vitreous in the setting of injection drug use.

Keywords: Bacillus cereus; Endophthalmitis; Injection drug use; Panophthalmitis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Bacillus cereus* / isolation & purification
Drug Users*
Endophthalmitis / diagnosis
Endophthalmitis / microbiology*
Female
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
Humans
Injections
Panophthalmitis / diagnosis
Panophthalmitis / microbiology*

Grants and funding

K23 AI097267/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States