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Clostridium septicum and malignancy

ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2001
Background:  Clostridium septicum is known to be associated with malignancy or immunosuppression. It has a variable clinical presentation and is associated with a high mortality. The aim of the present study was to review the experience at St George Hospital, Sydney, over a 10‐year period, with particular reference to the association of this condition ...
S S, Chew, D Z, Lubowski
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Clostridium septicum Arthritis

Southern Medical Journal, 1983
This case of anaerobic septic arthritis caused by Clostridium septicum is apparently the first reported. It emphasizes the need for obtaining anaerobic as well as aerobic cultures on all suspected cases of septic arthritis.
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Clostridium septicum Triad

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 2019
Abstract Infected aortic aneurysm is a rare occurrence accounting for 2.6% of described aneurysms. Staphylococcus species and Salmonella species are the most frequently isolated microbes, with Clostridium septicum being decidedly less commonly detected. It is well documented that C.
Luke N. Onuorah, John S. Czachor
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Clostridium septicum infection in neutropenic enterocolitis

Pathology, 1988
A 36-year-old woman developed neutropenia following chemotherapy for inoperable carcinoma of the cervix. She suffered acute abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and peritonitis of rapid onset. The right hemicolon and 15 cm of terminal ileum were resected at laparotomy and this showed marked edema of the cecum and ileo-cecal valve associated with ...
M L, Yeong, G I, Nicholson
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Fatal Clostridium septicum myonecrosis

Australasian Radiology, 1993
SUMMARY A 20 year old leukaemic patient with neutropaenia secondary to chemotherapy, who developed overwhelming sepsis, myonecrosis, vascular occlusion and necrotizing enterocolitis due to Clostridium septicum infection is described. Plain abdominal radiographs and a computed tomography scan of the abdomen and pelvis showed gas in the retroperitoneal ...
C Y, Hiew, M, Silberstein, O F, Hennessy
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Metastatic nontraumatic Clostridium septicum osteomyelitis

The Journal of Hand Surgery, 1985
Nontraumatic clostridial infections are rare, but need to be diagnosed and treated early or high morbidity and mortality rates result. We believe that this is the first reported case of metastatic nontraumatic Clostridium septicum osteomyelitis. Early treatment with surgical debridement and parenteral antibiotics without hyperbaric oxygen was used.
R J, Neimkin, J B, Jupiter
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Surgical Aspects of Clostridium septicum Septicemia

Archives of Surgery, 1984
Clostridium septicum is a virulent cause of gas gangrene and sepsis. Although thought to be rare, a survey of our affiliated hospitals for a recent five-year period disclosed eight cases. Seven of the eight had an occult malignant neoplasm. The eighth patient was thought to be preleukemic.
T M, Pelfrey, R P, Turk, J B, Peoples, D W, Elliott   +3 more
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Clostridium septicum septicaemia with myonecrosis

Australasian Radiology, 1999
A case of fatal spontaneous gas gangrene due to Clostridium septicum septicaemia associated with an occult rectal malignancy is presented. This condition has a rapid progression and a high mortality even with prompt treatment. It is important that the radiologist considers this diagnosis in an appropriate clinical setting to allow rapid instigation of ...
G C, Salanitri, P G, Tauro
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Cerebritis due to Clostridium septicum

Neurology, 1980
In a case of Clostridium septicum septicemia with cerebritis, the cerebral lesion appeared as a localized mass that clinically mimicked a metastatic tumor.
D, Roeltgen, G, Shugar, J, Towfighi
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Immunogenicity of Clostridium septicum in Guinea Pigs

American Journal of Veterinary Research, 1979
SUMMARY Five strains of Clostridium septicum were used to prepare bacterins, bacterin-toxoids, toxoid, and combinations of bacterins or bacterin-toxoids. These preparations were tested for immunogenicity in guinea pigs vaccinated subcutaneously with 1.0 ml of product. Usually, a second vaccination was given 21 to 24 days later.
K D, Claus, D R, Kolbe
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