Early Detection of Colon Cancer Following Incidental Finding of Clostridium septicum Bacteremia

Clostridium septicum is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming bacillus found in the intestine. It is linked to colon cancer and immunosuppression. Infection with C septicum may vary in manifestation and is associated with more than 60% mortality rate. In this article, we present a case of incide...

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Autores principales: Sidhu, Jasdeep Singh, Mandal, Amrendra, Virk, Jeevanjot, Gayam, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30857430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619832050
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author Sidhu, Jasdeep Singh
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description Clostridium septicum is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming bacillus found in the intestine. It is linked to colon cancer and immunosuppression. Infection with C septicum may vary in manifestation and is associated with more than 60% mortality rate. In this article, we present a case of incidental isolation of C septicum in a patient who presented with fever and later on colonoscopy was found to have colon carcinoma. Bacteremia may be the unexpected initial presentation of undiagnosed colon carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-64154642019-03-18 Early Detection of Colon Cancer Following Incidental Finding of Clostridium septicum Bacteremia Sidhu, Jasdeep Singh Mandal, Amrendra Virk, Jeevanjot Gayam, Vijay J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Clostridium septicum is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming bacillus found in the intestine. It is linked to colon cancer and immunosuppression. Infection with C septicum may vary in manifestation and is associated with more than 60% mortality rate. In this article, we present a case of incidental isolation of C septicum in a patient who presented with fever and later on colonoscopy was found to have colon carcinoma. Bacteremia may be the unexpected initial presentation of undiagnosed colon carcinoma. SAGE Publications 2019-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6415464/ /pubmed/30857430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619832050 Text en © 2019 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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