descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1998 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Pathology, volume 30, pages 402-404 (issn: 0031-3025,

Authors: Margaret M. Peel; Elizabeth A. Snashall; Barrie C. Mayall;

doi: 10.1080/00313029800169716

pmid: 9839318

Isolation of clostridium tetani from anaerobic empyema

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Abstract

We report the isolation of Clostridium tetani (along with Fusobacterium mortiferum) from empyema pus. The patient, a 68 year old retired farmer from rural NSW, had recently undergone cholecystectomy, had heart failure and developed an empyema. He improved after drainage of the empyema and penicillin therapy, but died suddenly during convalescence.

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University of Melbourne
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Male, Suppuration, Tetanus, Penicillin G, Fusobacterium, Fatal Outcome, Clostridium tetani, Drainage, Humans, Anaerobiosis, Empyema, Pleural, Aged

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