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Clostridium novyi type A infection: a sporadic fatal case
Christopher McGuigan1, Michael Roworth
1Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, Glasgow, UK. chris.mcguigan@scieh.csa.scot.nhs.uk
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|May 28, 2002
Abstract:
Infection with type A Clostridium novyi is rare. We report the case of a previously healthy 31-y-old woman with no known risk factors who died suddenly with a necrotizing soft tissue infection. We compare this case with a simultaneous outbreak of this infection amongst Scottish IDUs (injecting drug users).