An atypical Clostridium strain related to the Clostridium botulinum group III strain isolated from a human blood culture.

ABSTRACT: A nontoxigenic strain isolated from a fatal human case of bacterial sepsis was identified as a Clostridium strain from Clostridium botulinum group III, based on the phenotypic characters and 16S rRNA gene sequence, and was found to be related to the mosaic C. botulinum D/C strain according to a multilocus sequence analysis of 5 housekeeping genes.

SUBMITTER: Bouvet P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3911442 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature