title: Fatal Spontaneous Clostridium bifermentans Necrotizing Endometritis: A Case Report and Literature Review of the Pathogen.
abstract: Clostridium bifermentans is a rare pathogen in humans. A fatal case of fulminant endometritis with toxic shock and capillary leak secondary to C bifermentans infection in a young woman is described, and this is compared to all 13 previously described cases of C bifermentans infection.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infection Diseases.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hale
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Departments of Pathology.
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Kirby
authors.affiliation: Division of Infection Diseases; Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Albrecht
keywords: Clostridium bifermentans; Clostridium sordellii; capillary leak; hyperleukocytosis; toxic shock syndrome