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First Report of Clostridium lavalense Isolated in Human Blood Cultures

An 88-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with worsening malaise, fever, and weakness. Anaerobic blood culture bottles revealed the presence of an anaerobic, Gram-positive sporulated bacillus. Empirical antibiotherapy with intravenous piperacillin-tazobactam was initiated. The patient deferves...

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Autores principales: Garceau, Richard, Bourque, Christine, Thibault, Louise, Côté, Jean-Charles, Longtin, Jean, Domingo, Marc-Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4958426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27478446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7231805