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Paenibacillus Larvae Bacteremia in Injection Drug Users

Overview
Journal Emerg Infect Dis
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2010 Mar 6
PMID 20202425
Citations 14
Authors
Siegbert Rieg
Tilman Martin Bauer
Gabriele Peyerl-Hoffmann
Jurgen Held
Wolfgang Ritter
Dirk Wagner
Winfried Vinzenz Kern
Annerose Serr
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Abstract

Paenibacillus larvae causes American foulbrood in honey bees. We describe P. larvae bacteremia in 5 injection drug users who had self-injected honey-prepared methadone proven to contain P. larvae spores. That such preparations may be contaminated with spores of this organism is not well known among pharmacists, physicians, and addicts.

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