RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Non-toxigenic clostridia in babies.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 217
OP 220
DO 10.1136/jcp.34.2.217
VO 34
IS 2
A1 Mitchell, R G
A1 Etches, P C
A1 Day, D G
YR 1981
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/34/2/217.abstract
AB Non-toxigenic clostridia, Clostridium butyricum but occasionally C. paraputrificum, were isolated from mainly extra-alimentary sites of 28 babies in maternity hospital over a period of 40 weeks. During that time, C. butyricum was isolated from the blood of two babies who died of necrotising enterocolitis and of two babies without referable symptoms. Otherwise these organisms appeared to be of no pathogenic significance.