Fatal Spontaneous Clostridium bifermentans Necrotizing Endometritis: A Case Report and Literature Review of the Pathogen

Clostridium bifermentans is a rare pathogen in humans. A fatal case of fulminant endometritis with toxic shock and capillary leak secondary to C bifermentans infection in a young woman is described, and this is compared to all 13 previously described cases of C bifermentans infection.

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Autores principales: Hale, Andrew, Kirby, James E., Albrecht, Mary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27419167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw095
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spelling pubmed-49435412016-07-14 Fatal Spontaneous Clostridium bifermentans Necrotizing Endometritis: A Case Report and Literature Review of the Pathogen Hale, Andrew Kirby, James E. Albrecht, Mary Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Clostridium bifermentans is a rare pathogen in humans. A fatal case of fulminant endometritis with toxic shock and capillary leak secondary to C bifermentans infection in a young woman is described, and this is compared to all 13 previously described cases of C bifermentans infection. Oxford University Press 2016-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4943541/ /pubmed/27419167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw095 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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title_full Fatal Spontaneous Clostridium bifermentans Necrotizing Endometritis: A Case Report and Literature Review of the Pathogen
title_fullStr Fatal Spontaneous Clostridium bifermentans Necrotizing Endometritis: A Case Report and Literature Review of the Pathogen
title_full_unstemmed Fatal Spontaneous Clostridium bifermentans Necrotizing Endometritis: A Case Report and Literature Review of the Pathogen
title_short Fatal Spontaneous Clostridium bifermentans Necrotizing Endometritis: A Case Report and Literature Review of the Pathogen
title_sort fatal spontaneous clostridium bifermentans necrotizing endometritis: a case report and literature review of the pathogen
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