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Case Reports
. 2011 Sep;3(3):156-8.

Fatal sepsis by Bacillus circulans in an immunocompromised patient

M Alebouyeh  1 , P Gooran Orimi, M Azimi-Rad, M Tajbakhsh, E Tajeddin, S Jahani Sherafat, E Nazemalhosseini Mojarad, Mr Zali
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Case Reports

Fatal sepsis by Bacillus circulans in an immunocompromised patient

M Alebouyeh et al. Iran J Microbiol. 2011 Sep.

Abstract

An immunosuppressed man was admitted to hospital with diarrhea and a history of urinary tract infection. He was subjected to treatment with antibiotics. The patient died of putative severe sepsis. The etiological agent was a carbapenemase producing isolate of Bacillus circulans with resistance to all prescribed antimicrobial agents.

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Spore staining and colony morphology of B. circulansa.a The bacterium was cultured on sheep blood agar and stained by malachite green and safranin. 100 X.
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