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

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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Main Authors: Marytere Carrasquillo, Lisa L. Dever, Alexandra Sonyey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:IDCases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250918300131
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spelling doaj-11c01debf11e41c290b8f4d49196963e2021-07-02T08:26:54ZengElsevierIDCases2214-25092018-01-0111C808210.1016/j.idcr.2018.01.014Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremiaMarytere Carrasquillo0Lisa L. Dever1Alexandra Sonyey2Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Newark, NJ, United StatesDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Newark, NJ, United StatesDepartment of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, VA New Jersey Health Care System East Orange, NJ, United StatesClostridium 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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250918300131
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Alexandra Sonyey
Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia
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Alexandra Sonyey
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title 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_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_sort botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with clostridium subterminale bacteremia
publisher Elsevier
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publishDate 2018-01-01
description 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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