Jie Ouyang, Zhiheng Pei, Larry Lutwick, Sharvari Dalal, Liying Yang, Nicholas Cassai, Kuldip Sandhu, Bruce Hanna, Rosemary L Wieczorek, Martin Bluth, Matthew R Pincus
Paenibacilli are gram-positive, aerobic bacteria that are related to Bacilli but differ in the DNA encoding their 16S rRNA. Until recently, these organisms were not known to cause human disease. There are now several reports of human infection caused by a few members of this genus, most commonly by P. alvei. We report a human infection in a patient with a permacath for chronic hemodialysis who was found to have bacteremia caused by P. thiaminolyticus, which is an environmental bacterium that has never been found to cause human disease...
2008: Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science