Bacteremia Caused by Clostridium symbiosum
- 1 September 2004
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 42 (9) , 4390-4392
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.42.9.4390-4392.2004
Abstract
We describe a fatal case of Clostridium symbiosum bacteremia in a 70-year-old man with metastatic colon cancer. Our report is the first, in the world literature, of human infection caused by this microorganism.Keywords
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