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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2006, p. 3842-3844, Vol. 44, No. 10
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01200-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

First Isolation of Clostridium amygdalinum from a Patient with Chronic Osteitis

Jean-Philippe Carlier,1* Maria Manich,1 Caroline Loïez,2 Henri Migaud,3 and René J. Courcol2

Centre National de Référence des Bactéries Anaérobies et du Botulisme, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France,1 Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France,2 Service d'Orthopédie, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France3

Received 12 June 2006/ Returned for modification 22 June 2006/ Accepted 27 July 2006

We describe a case of osteitis caused by a new and unusual Clostridium species, Clostridium amygdalinum, an environmental, moderately thermophilic bacterium. This is the first documented report of human infection caused by this organism.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centre National de Référence des Bactéries Anaérobies et du Botulisme, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 Rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France. Phone: (33) 1 40 61 34 47. Fax: (33) 1 40 61 31 23. E-mail: jcarlier{at}pasteur.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2006, p. 3842-3844, Vol. 44, No. 10
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01200-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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