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Case Reports
. 2007;39(6-7):617-9.
doi: 10.1080/00365540601105798.

Direct detection of Clostridium sordellii in pleural fluid of a patient with pneumonic empyema by a broad-range 16S rRNA PCR

Christoforos N Foroulis  1 , Irini Gerogianni, Vassilios K Kouritas, Eleni Karestsi, Dimitra Klapsa, Konstantinos Gourgoulianis, Efi Petinaki
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Direct detection of Clostridium sordellii in pleural fluid of a patient with pneumonic empyema by a broad-range 16S rRNA PCR

Christoforos N Foroulis et al. Scand J Infect Dis. 2007.

Abstract

We report the case of a 56-y-old male admitted with a left-sided post-pneumonic empyema. Clostridium sordellii DNA was directly detected in its pleural fluid by a broad-range 16S rRNA PCR, after 24 h of specimen collection. This is the third case of pleural infection caused by C. sordellii in the literature.

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