title: Bacteremia caused by Clostridium symbiosum.
abstract: We describe a fatal case of Clostridium symbiosum bacteremia in a 70-year-old man with metastatic colon cancer. Our report is the first, in the world literature, of human infection caused by this microorganism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. sameer.elsayed@cls.ab.ca
authors.forename: Sameer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Elsayed
authors.forename: Kunyan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003013:Clostridium / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D010802:Phylogeny