| clinical and epidemiological features of clostridium perfringens bacteremia: a review of 18 cases over 8 year-period in a tertiary care center in metropolitan tokyo area in japan. | clostridial sepsis has a very poor prognosis, owing to the life-threatening combination of shock and acute massive hemolysis. no papers have described the clinical features of clostridial sepsis cases in japan. therefore, we retrospectively examined the clinical features of patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs) from whose blood cultures clostridium perfringens was isolated. | 2010 | 21088344 |
| epidemiological study of clostridium perfringens (welchii) food poisoning--the carrier state and its variation in humans. | | 1967 | 4295046 |
| comparison of fecal microflora of elderly persons in rural and urban areas of japan. | the fecal microflora of 15 healthy elderly persons with a median age of 84 years in a rural area whose inhabitants tend to be long-lived (yuzurihara-area, uenohara, yamanashi prefecture) was compared with the microflora of individuals with a median age of 68 years in an urban area (tokyo). the diet of the elderly persons in the yuzurihara area is characterized by a high intake of dietary fiber. total numbers of anaerobic bacteria were significantly smaller in the elderly persons in the yuzurihar ... | 1989 | 2547333 |