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NON‐FATAL CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS BACTEREMIA *
Author(s) -
Ellner Paul D.,
O'Donnell Edward D.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1969.tb02317.x
Subject(s) - clostridium perfringens , bacteremia , medicine , hemolysis , shock (circulatory) , mortality rate , septic shock , surgery , gastroenterology , sepsis , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , antibiotics , genetics , biology
A bstract Sixteen cases of bacteremia due to Clostridium perfringens are documented. None of these patients had hemolytic phenomena or shock, and all survived the bacteremic episode; 9 of them were more than 50 years old (mean age, 64). A review of these 16 cases and the 34 in the literature indicates that invasion of the blood by Clostridium perfringens may take two clinical forms: 1) a septicemia with intravascular hemolysis, shock and a high mortality rate; and 2) a benign bacteremia without hemolysis. Of the 50 reported cases of the benign bacteremic form, 68 per cent occurred in patients past the age of 50 (mean age, 64), and the recovery rate was 90 per cent.