IDCases (Jan 2018)

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

  • Marytere Carrasquillo,
  • Lisa L. Dever,
  • Alexandra Sonyey

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.