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Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis Leading to Clostridium Paraputrificum Bacteremia
Clostridium species are spore-forming gram-positive anaerobic rod bacteria that cause a broad range of infections in humans, including intra-abdominal infections, myonecrosis, and bacteremia. Pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) is a severe form of infection caused by Clostridioides difficile. Clostridial...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022762/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33842139 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13763 |
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author | Haider, Asim Alavi, Fareeha Siddiqa, Ayesha Abbas, Hafsa Patel, Harish |
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description | Clostridium species are spore-forming gram-positive anaerobic rod bacteria that cause a broad range of infections in humans, including intra-abdominal infections, myonecrosis, and bacteremia. Pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) is a severe form of infection caused by Clostridioides difficile. Clostridial bacteremia usually occurs in the settings of neutropenia, alcohol abuse, diabetes mellitus, sickle cell anemia, malignancy, hemodialysis, inflammatory bowel disease, and AIDS. We report a case of fulminant PMC leading to C. paraputrificum bacteremia in an otherwise immunocompetent patient. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of such an occurrence. |
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spelling | pubmed-80227622021-04-08 Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis Leading to Clostridium Paraputrificum Bacteremia Haider, Asim Alavi, Fareeha Siddiqa, Ayesha Abbas, Hafsa Patel, Harish Cureus Internal Medicine Clostridium species are spore-forming gram-positive anaerobic rod bacteria that cause a broad range of infections in humans, including intra-abdominal infections, myonecrosis, and bacteremia. Pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) is a severe form of infection caused by Clostridioides difficile. Clostridial bacteremia usually occurs in the settings of neutropenia, alcohol abuse, diabetes mellitus, sickle cell anemia, malignancy, hemodialysis, inflammatory bowel disease, and AIDS. We report a case of fulminant PMC leading to C. paraputrificum bacteremia in an otherwise immunocompetent patient. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of such an occurrence. Cureus 2021-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8022762/ /pubmed/33842139 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13763 Text en Copyright © 2021, Haider et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Haider, Asim Alavi, Fareeha Siddiqa, Ayesha Abbas, Hafsa Patel, Harish Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis Leading to Clostridium Paraputrificum Bacteremia |
title | Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis Leading to Clostridium Paraputrificum Bacteremia |
title_full | Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis Leading to Clostridium Paraputrificum Bacteremia |
title_fullStr | Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis Leading to Clostridium Paraputrificum Bacteremia |
title_full_unstemmed | Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis Leading to Clostridium Paraputrificum Bacteremia |
title_short | Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis Leading to Clostridium Paraputrificum Bacteremia |
title_sort | fulminant pseudomembranous colitis leading to clostridium paraputrificum bacteremia |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022762/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33842139 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13763 |
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