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Two healthy young black men developed panophthalmitis after intravenous heroin injections. Bacillus cereus, considered to be a relatively noncommon pathogen for man, was found to be the causative agent as it was recovered from the anterior chamber and viterous cavity of both cases. The ocular
Over the past seven years we have treated three cases of drug abusers in whom endogenous Bacillus cereus endophthalmitis rapidly progressed to panophthalmitis. Ocular features of infection with this organism include severe pain, chemosis, proptosis, corneal infiltration and ring abscess, subretinal
Bacillus cereus is a seldom recognised but important cause of panophthalmitis. Although most reported cases have been the result of endogenous infection, we have recently seen 4 cases that followed ocular trauma. In each instance a fulminating panophthalmitis developed, accompanied by fever and
A case of severe suppurative endogenous panophthalmitis caused by Bacillus cereus resulted from intravenously administered medications. This is the first, to our knowledge, well-documented case of endogenous endophthalmitis associated with this organism. It is recommended that if on Gram's stain of
A rapidly progressing panophthalmitis due to Bacillus cereus developed in three patients. Infection was associated with intravenous drug abuse in two patients and was traced to contaminated injection paraphernalia in one. In the third patient, infection was associated with a foreign-body injury to
Serious infections with the "nonpathogenic" Bacillus species are increasingly being recognized, especially in drug abusers. Cases of panophthalmitis secondary to infection with Bacillus cereus, with and without associated bacteremia, have been reported. Three drug abusers with panophthalmitis seen
It has become increasingly apparent that Bacillus cereus can cause a severe and devastating form of endophthalmitis following penetrating trauma by a metallic object. B. cereus is an uncommon aetiological agent in non-clostridial gas-forming infections. The patient studied in this single case report
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
The authors present a case of a young man with post-traumatic endophthalmitis caused by Bacillus cereus. The clinical course was typical of the panophthalmitis caused by this toxin-producing organism: rapid onset of signs of systemic infection, a corneal ring abscess and eventual loss of the globe
OBJECTIVE
To report the first case of Bacillus cereus keratitis leading to panophthalmitis in a patient operated for combined Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) and phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation.
METHODS
A 40-year-old woman with corneal decompensation