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An 11-year-old boy with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma of the thigh experienced three instances of catheter-related bacteremia resulting from After two episodes of seizures, two low-density lesions in the right parietal lobe and the left corpus callosum with enhanced pericavitary opacity were detected.
Bacillus cereus causing infective endocarditis (IE) in a native valve is an extremely rare event, but it is reported mostly in intravenous drug abusers and other risk factors as immunosuppression, malignancy, and valvular heart disease including prosthetic heart valves. We report a case of
We report the case of a 19-yr-old boy, who received an allogeneic stem cell transplantation for the second relapse of Hodgkin's disease. The patient developed seizures and flaccid hemiparesis on day +10. Meningoencephalitis induced by Bacillus cereus was diagnosed. The treatment consisted of
We present an 11-year-old boy diagnosed as having acute encephalopathy and liver failure with the underlying condition of a metabolic dysfunction. He developed convulsions and severe consciousness disturbance following gastroenteritis after the ingestion of some fried rice. He showed excessive
Bacillus cereus is a gram-positive pathogen mainly known to evoke two types of foodborne poisonings. The diarrheal syndrome is caused by enterotoxins produced during growth in the intestine. In contrast, the emetic type is caused by the dodecadepsipeptide cereulide pre-formed in food. Usually, both