Background. Diarrhea is a common problem in ovarian cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and Clostridium difficile infection has been identified as a cause. The proper diagnosis and treatment of diarrhea are critical to patient care, especially to prevent the serious complications from a severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Case. We present a heavily pretreated ovarian cancer patien...

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...

We investigated butanol production from crystalline cellulose by cocultured cellulolytic Clostridium thermocellum and the butanol-producing strain, Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum (strain N1-4). Butanol was produced from Avicel cellulose after it was incubated with C. thermocellum for at least 24 h at 60°C before the addition of strain N1-4. Butanol produced by strain N1-4 on 4% Avicel c...

Egg white lysozyme was demonstrated to have antibacterial activity against organisms of concern in food safety, including Listeria monocytogenes and certain strains of Clostridium botulinum. We also found that the food spoilage thermophile Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum was highly susceptible to lysozyme and confirmed that the spoilage organisms Bacillus stearothermophilus and Clostridium ty...

Clostridium sordellii is a toxin producing ubiquitous gram-positive anaerobe, mainly associated with trauma, soft tissue skin infections, and gynecologic infection. We report a unique case of a new strain of Clostridium sordellii (not present in the Center for Disease Control (CDC) database) infection induced toxic shock syndrome in a previously healthy two-year-old male with colitis-related he...

The nutritional requirements of some members of the genus Clostridium are, as yet, incompletely known. Not only is maximum growth in some species, such as Clostridium parabotulinum (Elberg and Meyer, 1939), dependent upon some unidentified substance, but in others, such as Clostridium tetani (Mueller and Miller, 1948) and Clostridium perfringens (Adams, Hendee, and Pappenheimer, 1947), high yie...

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Clostridium sporogenes is a food contaminating anaerobic bacteria causes late bowing effect in cheeses and spoilages in other dairy products. A total of 150 samples were studied for the presence of Clostridium sporogenes in raw milk, curd and cheese samples. Out of 150 sample 11(22%) Clostridium sporogenes was found in raw milk, 7(14%) in curd and 2(4%) in cheese samples. The study shows the ex...

THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES OF S-LAYERS 1. Classification of S-layers According to Symmetry 2. Hexagonal S-layers (a) Sulfolobus acidocaldarius (b) Thermoproteus tenax (c) Synechocystis sp. CLII (d) Eubacterium sp. AHN 990 (e) Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum (f) Deinococcus radiodurans (g) Aquaspirillum serpens (h) Acetooenium kivui (i) Bacteroides buccae 3. Tetragonal S-layers (a) Bacillus ...

Clostridium senegalense strain JC122(T), is the type strain of Clostridium senegalense sp. nov., a new species within the genus Clostridium. This strain, whose genome is described here, was isolated from the fecal flora of a healthy patient. C. senegalense strain JC122(T) is an obligate anaerobic Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with t...