Bacterial Meningitis Caused by Bacillus subtilis var. natto

A 67-year-old woman with a 2-day history of a fever, headache and disturbed consciousness was admitted to our hospital. Bacillus subtilis was isolated from both the cerebrospinal fluid and blood. She was cured by the administration of vancomycin. Next-generation sequencing identified the strain as B. subtilis var. natto, the same strain found in natto, which this patient ate daily. We suspected that some of the B. subtilis that caused the infection may have actually been B. subtilis var. natto.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:62

Enthalten in:

Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 62(2023), 13 vom: 01. Juli, Seite 1989-1993

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tokano, Mieko [VerfasserIn]
Tarumoto, Norihito [VerfasserIn]
Imai, Kazuo [VerfasserIn]
Sakai, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Maeda, Takuya [VerfasserIn]
Kawamura, Toru [VerfasserIn]
Seo, Kazuhide [VerfasserIn]
Takahashi, Kazushi [VerfasserIn]
Yamamoto, Toshimasa [VerfasserIn]
Maesaki, Shigefumi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bacillus subtilis
Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis
Bacillussubtilis var. natto
Case Reports
Journal Article
Meningitis
Nattokinase
Probiotics

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Date Completed 04.07.2023

Date Revised 29.07.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2169/internalmedicine.0768-22

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NLM349311951