British Journal of Neurosurgery 2000-Dec
Bacillus cereus meningitis complicating cerebrospinal fluid fistula repair and spinal drainage.
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Non-anthrax Bacillus species are rare, but serious causes of bacterial meningitis in those either immunocompromised or treated with CSF diversion. Although resistant to first-line antibiotics, they usually respond to chloramphenicol. We report a case of fulminant Bacillus cereus meningitis that complicated lumbar spinal drainage which proved resistant to all first-line antibiotics including chloramphenicol.