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Revue Tunisienne d'Infectiologie. 2008; 2 (3): 39-41
in French
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ABSTRACT
We report a case of resolutive bacteraemia due to Clostridium perfringens in an olderly patient with no predisposing factors or portal of entry. The patient presented a non specific infectious syndrome: high level CRP and fever; and was hospitalized for ischemic cardiopathy. Three cultures of peripheral blood have shown a growth in the first anaerobe one only, confirmed by the presence of Gram positive rods. Biochemical profile of the strain Api 20A [BioMerieux] allowed the identification of Clostridium perfringens at 99, 9%. The evolution under amoxicillin-clavulanic acid introduced before the second and the third blood culture permits a total recovering and disappearance of fever and pathologic levels of CRP