Cardiac infection and sepsis in 3 intravenous bath salts drug users

Abstract

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. © 2013 The Author.