Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
9270657 | Journal of Infection | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Clostridium tertium septicemia is a rare condition that predominantly occurs in neutropenic patients with concomitant abdominal disease. We report the fatal case of a nonneutropenic, 51-year-old patient with mechanical ileus and post-operative C. tertium septicemia, resulting in widespread pathology with multi-organ failure. As C. tertium is aerotolerant, often gram-variable and mostly resistant to broad-spectrum cephalosporins, differentiation is difficult and empirical therapeutic strategies may fail.
Keywords
Related Topics
Life Sciences
Immunology and Microbiology
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Authors
Dennis Tappe, Jürgen Dirks, Rainer Müller, Jörg Brederlau, Marianne Abele-Horn, Sebastian Suerbaum, Oliver Kurzai,