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Non-toxigenic clostridia in babies.
Non-toxigenic clostridia, Clostridium butyricum but occasionally C. paraputrificum, were isolated from mainly extra-alimentary sites of 28 babies in maternity hospital over a period of 40 weeks. During that time, C. butyricum was isolated from the blood of two babies who died of necrotising enterocolitis and of two babies without referable symptoms. Otherwise these organisms appeared to be of n...
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The rapidly progressive infections of muscle brought about by some members of the genus Clostridium have been investigated by a number of workers during the past ten years. In general, such investigations fell into three groups: investigations of the clostridia found in war wounds and the factors that affect their growth; investigations of the exocellular toxins produced by the pathogenic clost...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0893-8512,1098-6618
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.3.1.66