First Report of Clostridium lavalense Isolated in Human Blood Cultures
Joint Authors
Longtin, Jean
Côté, Jean-Charles
Garceau, Richard
Bourque, Christine
Thibault, Louise
Domingo, Marc-Christian
Source
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-3, 3 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-07-10
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
3
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
An 88-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with worsening malaise, fever, and weakness.
Anaerobic blood culture bottles revealed the presence of an anaerobic, Gram-positive sporulated bacillus.
Empirical antibiotherapy with intravenous piperacillin-tazobactam was initiated.
The patient defervesced after four days and was switched to oral amoxicillin on his 6th day of antibiotic therapy and later discharged from the hospital.
Four months later, he had recovered.
The bacterium was initially identified as Clostridium butyricum using anaerobic manual identification panel.
16S rRNA gene sequence and phylogenetic analysis showed the bacterium to be Clostridium lavalense, a recently described species with no previously published case of isolation in human diagnostic samples so far.
This is the first report of Clostridium lavalense isolation from human blood cultures.
Further studies are needed in order to elucidate the role of Clostridium lavalense in human disease and its virulence factors.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Garceau, Richard& Bourque, Christine& Thibault, Louise& Côté, Jean-Charles& Longtin, Jean& Domingo, Marc-Christian. 2016. First Report of Clostridium lavalense Isolated in Human Blood Cultures. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-3.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Garceau, Richard…[et al.]. First Report of Clostridium lavalense Isolated in Human Blood Cultures. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-3.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Garceau, Richard& Bourque, Christine& Thibault, Louise& Côté, Jean-Charles& Longtin, Jean& Domingo, Marc-Christian. First Report of Clostridium lavalense Isolated in Human Blood Cultures. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1100008
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1100008