Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia

Clostridium subterminale is a low virulence species of Clostridium that is an infrequent cause of human infections. We report a case of C. subterminale bacteremia in an immunocompetent patient who developed botulism-like symptoms.

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Autores principales: Carrasquillo, Marytere, Dever, Lisa L., Sonyey, Alexandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29619329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.01.014
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spelling pubmed-58814392018-04-04 Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia Carrasquillo, Marytere Dever, Lisa L. Sonyey, Alexandra IDCases Article Clostridium subterminale is a low virulence species of Clostridium that is an infrequent cause of human infections. We report a case of C. subterminale bacteremia in an immunocompetent patient who developed botulism-like symptoms. Elsevier 2018-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5881439/ /pubmed/29619329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.01.014 Text en © 2018 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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Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia
title Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia
title_full Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia
title_fullStr Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia
title_full_unstemmed Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia
title_short Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia
title_sort botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with clostridium subterminale bacteremia
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29619329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.01.014
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