Osteosynthesis-Associated Bone Infection Caused by a Nonproteolytic, Nontoxigenic Clostridium botulinum-Like Strain

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 484-486

  Carlier, Jean Philippe ^a   K'Ouas, Guylène ^a   Lozniewski, Alain ^b   Sirveaux, François ^c   Cailloux, Philippe ^c   Mory, Francine ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^c Clinique de Traumatologie et Orthopédie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; HUMAN; HUMERUS SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BONE DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; BONE PLATES; CLOSTRIDIUM; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM A; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0347093227     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.1.484-486.2004     Document Type: Article

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