Clostridium subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient

Clostridium subterminale is a Clostridium species that has been rarely isolated in the blood of immunocompromised patients. We report a case of C. subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient who presented with acute mediastinitis following spontaneous esophageal rupture.

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Autores principales: Daganou, Maria, Kyriakoudi, Ann, Moraitou, Helen, Pontikis, Konstantinos, Avgeropoulou, Stavrina, Tripolitsioti, Paraskevi, Koutsoukou, Antonia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4954936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27478764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.06.005
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author Daganou, Maria
Kyriakoudi, Ann
Moraitou, Helen
Pontikis, Konstantinos
Avgeropoulou, Stavrina
Tripolitsioti, Paraskevi
Koutsoukou, Antonia
author_facet Daganou, Maria
Kyriakoudi, Ann
Moraitou, Helen
Pontikis, Konstantinos
Avgeropoulou, Stavrina
Tripolitsioti, Paraskevi
Koutsoukou, Antonia
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description Clostridium subterminale is a Clostridium species that has been rarely isolated in the blood of immunocompromised patients. We report a case of C. subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient who presented with acute mediastinitis following spontaneous esophageal rupture.
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spelling pubmed-49549362016-07-29 Clostridium subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient Daganou, Maria Kyriakoudi, Ann Moraitou, Helen Pontikis, Konstantinos Avgeropoulou, Stavrina Tripolitsioti, Paraskevi Koutsoukou, Antonia IDCases Case Report Clostridium subterminale is a Clostridium species that has been rarely isolated in the blood of immunocompromised patients. We report a case of C. subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient who presented with acute mediastinitis following spontaneous esophageal rupture. Elsevier 2016-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4954936/ /pubmed/27478764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.06.005 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Daganou, Maria
Kyriakoudi, Ann
Moraitou, Helen
Pontikis, Konstantinos
Avgeropoulou, Stavrina
Tripolitsioti, Paraskevi
Koutsoukou, Antonia
Clostridium subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient
title Clostridium subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient
title_full Clostridium subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient
title_fullStr Clostridium subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient
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title_short Clostridium subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient
title_sort clostridium subterminale septicemia in an immunocompetent patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4954936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27478764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.06.005
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