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Bacillus cereus panophthalmitis associated with injection drug use
Nilay Kumar1, Neetika Garg2, Nilesh Kumar3
1Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, 1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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.