Table 1

Reported cases of Clostridium sordellii bacteraemia in the literature

Ref	Age/Sex	Underlying condition	Presenting illness	Presumed portal of entry	Outcome
Four other cases of C sordellii bacteraemia have been reported but the description is incomplete and outcome not reported.¹³
†Two further cases of endocarditis have been reported in one series but no details were provided.²⁰
§No further details given.
GI, gastrointestinal tract; IV, intravenous.
14	18/M	Acute alcoholic intoxication	Cardiorespiratory arrest, myonecrosis, necrotic-haemorrhagic pancreatitis	GI/colon	Fatal
10	61/M	Rheumatic valvular disease	Pneumonitis, empyema	Oropharynx	Survived
		Congestive heart failure	Infective endocarditis†
12	54/M	Metastatic melanoma to colon	Septic shock	GI/colon	Fatal
12	40/F	Genitourinary malignancy	Postoperative wound infection§	Unknown	Survived
15	37/M	IV drug abuse, sickle cell thalassaemia, inflammatory bowel disease, functional asplenia	Pneumonitis, back pain, bleeding from rectum	?GI/colon	Survived
				?Auto-inoculation
16	48/F	Liver transplantation, immunosuppressive treatment	Septic shock	?Transcutaneous liver biopsy	Fatal
17	55/M	Transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder, radiation colitis	Intra-abdominal sepsis, perforated viscus	GI/colon	Fatal
13	29/F	Caesarian section	Septic shock, retroperitoneal sepsis	GI/colon	Fatal
18	37/M	Chronic alcoholism/liver cirrhosis	Haemetemesis peritonitis, intravascular haemolysis	?GI	Fatal
19	73/M	Metastatic prostate cancer	Perirectal and ischiorectal abscess	GI/rectum	Fatal
Case 1	81/F	Traumatic self evacuation	Widespread cellulitis, perirectal necrosis	GI/rectum	Fatal
Case 2	12/M	Epilepsy	Ear infection	Ear	Survived