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Case Reports
. 2004 Jan;42(1):484-6.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.1.484-486.2004.

Osteosynthesis-associated bone infection caused by a nonproteolytic, nontoxigenic Clostridium botulinum-like strain

Jean-Philippe Carlier  1 , Guylène K'ouas, Alain Lozniewski, François Sirveaux, Philippe Cailloux, Francine Mory
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Case Reports

Osteosynthesis-associated bone infection caused by a nonproteolytic, nontoxigenic Clostridium botulinum-like strain

Jean-Philippe Carlier et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Jan.

Abstract

A nonproteolytic, nontoxigenic Clostridium botulinum strain identified by conventional and molecular techniques as type B-, E-, or F-like (BEF-like) was isolated from a human postsurgical wound. All previous reports of such strains have been from environmental sources. Since toxin production is the main taxonomic denominator for C. botulinum, a new name is needed for nonproteolytic, nontoxigenic BEF-like clinical isolates.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Dendrogram showing the phylogenetic position of strain AIP 355.02 within group II C. botulinum based on 16S rDNA gene sequences. The sequence of Clostridium butyricum was used as an outgroup. The numbers above the branches are bootstrap percentages from 100 resampled data sets. The reference sequences were obtained from the GenBank and EMBL databases. Accession numbers are given in parentheses. The bar represents a 1% sequence difference.
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