Bacillus cereus Typhlitis in a Patient with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 2

Conclusions for Bacillus cereus infection in neutropenic hematologic malignancy patients.

	Conclusion	Reference Number
1	Neutropenia is the primary risk factor for infection, as opposed to intoxication, with B. cereus	[5–12]
2	B. cereus has a predilection for the CNS and the liver; involvement of either of these two organ systems portends a poor prognosis	[5, 7, 9–12]
3	The case fatality rate for B. cereus sepsis appears to be 25%	[5, 9]
4	The most commonly used definitive therapy for B. cereus infection appears to be vancomycin with or without carbapenem	[5–10]

CNS = central nervous system.