Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia
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Clostridium subterminale is a low virulence species of Clostridium that is an infrequent cause of human infections. We report a case of C. subterminale bacteremia in an immunocompetent patient who developed botulism-like symptoms.
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