Cardiac Infection and Sepsis in 3 Intravenous Bath Salts Drug Users | Zendy

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Cardiac Infection and Sepsis in 3 Intravenous Bath Salts Drug Users

Author(s) -

P.S. Belton,

T. Sharngoe,

F. M. Maguire,

Mark E. Polhemus

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/cit095

Subject(s) - medicine , intravenous drug , endocarditis , staphylococcus aureus , sepsis , drug , pericarditis , infective endocarditis , intravenous use , staphylococcal infections , anesthesia , pharmacology , surgery , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , viral disease , bacteria , biology , genetics

The street drug "bath salts" are psychoactive mixtures of cathinone derivatives. We report 3 cases of disseminated Staphylococcus aureus infection with cardiac involvement (2 endocarditis and 1 pericarditis), secondary to intravenous bath salts use.

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