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. 1980 Jul;56(657):501–503. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.56.657.501

Non-traumatic clostridial myositis: an unusual feature of brain death.

J P Thys, P Ectors, P Noel
PMCID: PMC2425809  PMID: 7003574

Abstract

In a case of brain death, a Clostridium sordellii and Escherichia coli septicaemia--of probable gastrointestinal origin--developed and was associated with a diffuse clostridial myositis. Factors responsible for the initiation and development of this unusual clostridial infection are discussed.

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