TY - JOUR AU - Rieg, Siegbert AU - Bauer, Tilman Martin AU - Peyerl-Hoffmann, Gabriele AU - Held, Jürgen AU - Ritter, Wolfgang AU - Wagner, Dirk AU - Kern, Winfried Vinzenz AU - Serr, Annerose T1 - Paenibacillus larvae Bacteremia in Injection Drug Users T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 3 SP - 487 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Paenibacillus larvae causes American foulbrood in honey bees. We describe P. larvae bacteremia in 5 injection drug users who had self-injected honey-prepared methadone proven to contain P. larvae spores. That such preparations may be contaminated with spores of this organism is not well known among pharmacists, physicians, and addicts. KW - Paenibacillus larvae KW - bacteremia KW - bacteria KW - intravenous drug abuse KW - honey KW - methadone substitution KW - American foulbrood KW - dispatch KW - Germany DO - 10.3201/eid1603.091457 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/3/09-1457_article ER - End of Reference