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.
- aged,
- agents,
- ag_brehm
- bacteremia,
- clostridium
- failure
- fatal
- female,
- humans,
- ileus,
- immunocompetence,
- infections,
- intestine,
- microbial
- middle
- multiple
- organ
- outcome,
- sensitivity
- small,
- tertium,
- tests,
- {anti-bacterial}
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