title: Clostridium glycolicum bacteremia in a bone marrow transplant patient.
abstract: We describe a case of Clostridium glycolicum bacteremia and septic shock in an adult woman with a recent bone marrow transplant for relapsed Hodgkin's disease. The bacterium was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This is the first published report of the recovery of this organism from human clinical material.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, 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: D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003013:Clostridium / Q000145:classification* / Q000187:drug effects; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents