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 no pathogenic significance.
D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology; D003013:Clostridium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D014472:Umbilicus / Q000382:microbiology