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

Marytere Carrasquillo; Lisa L. Dever; Alexandra Sonyey

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2018.01.014

IDCases (Jan 2018)

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

Marytere Carrasquillo,
Lisa L. Dever,
Alexandra Sonyey

Affiliations

Marytere Carrasquillo: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Newark, NJ, United States
Lisa L. Dever: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Newark, NJ, United States
Alexandra Sonyey: Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, VA New Jersey Health Care System East Orange, NJ, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.01.014
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. C
pp. 80 – 82

Abstract

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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.

Published in IDCases

ISSN: 2214-2509 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases
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