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Fatal Spontaneous Clostridium bifermentans Necrotizing Endometritis: A Case Report and Literature Review of the Pathogen

Published:2016 Issue:2 Volume:3 Page:
ISSN:2328-8957
Container-title:Open Forum Infectious Diseases
language:en
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Author:

Hale Andrew¹,Kirby James E.²³,Albrecht Mary¹⁴

Affiliation:

1. Division of Infection Diseases

2. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

3. Departments of Pathology

4. Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Abstract

Abstract Clostridium bifermentans is a rare pathogen in humans. A fatal case of fulminant endometritis with toxic shock and capillary leak secondary to C bifermentans infection in a young woman is described, and this is compared to all 13 previously described cases of C bifermentans infection.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Oncology

Link

http://academic.oup.com/ofid/article-pdf/3/2/ofw095/33602556/ofw095.pdf

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