Bacillus subtilis as a cause of cholangitis in polycystic kidney and liver disease
Wallet, F.; Crunelle, V.; Roussel-Delvallez, M.; Fruchart, A.; Saunier, P.; Courcol, R.J.
American Journal of Gastroenterology 91(7): 1477-1478
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9270 PMID: 8678036 Document Number: 6225
Bacillus suhtilis has been described in about 15 systemic infections such as bacteremia. meningitis, pneumonia, endocarditis in drug abuse, and in 160 ophthalmic infections. In these cases, a general immunocompromised situation or a predisposing local factor were always tbund (chronic intravascular catheter, foreign-body injury, or ventriculoatrial shunt). We describe the first case of B. subtilis cholangitis in a child with an autosomal recessive polycystic kidney and liver disease: he had received a kidney transplant 3 months earlier.
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