Of 12 patients, four died of B. cereus septicemia. In this study, the delayed administration of appropriate
antibiotics (starting >24 hours after presentation), the presence of liver dysfunction and evidence of
central nervous system (CNS) involvement tended to result in a fatal prognosis. All of the bacterial strains
were found to be susceptible to vancomycin and quinolones (such as ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin),
whereas many strains were resistant to clindamycin (76.9%) and imipenem (30.8%). In seven of 10 patients,
central venous (CV) catheter tips were removed and routinely cultured. Catheter tip cultures were positive for
B. cereus in three of seven patients