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CNS infection with clostridium septicum
C Dirks1, H Horn, L Christensen
1Department of Internal Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Denmark.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|July 6, 2000
Abstract:
We present an unusual case of Clostridium septicum brain infection in a 72-yr-old woman who had no underlying malignant disease. The infection spread from a localized sit to the CNS causing gas formation. The patient died rapidly.