Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 142-144 , March 2010

Sepsis and gas-forming splenic abscess by Clostridium septicum in a patient with type 2 diabetes

  • Makoto Imamura

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research Centre, Hidaka Hospital, Japan
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  • Kenju Shimomura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Henry Wellcome Centre for Gene Function, University of Oxford, OX1 3PT Oxford, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 (0) 1865 285818.
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  • Ayako Watanabe

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research Centre, Hidaka Hospital, Japan
    • ,
  • Mayumi Negishi

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research Centre, Hidaka Hospital, Japan
    • ,
  • Masako Akuzawa

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research Centre, Hidaka Hospital, Japan
    • ,
  • Masaki Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research Centre, Hidaka Hospital, Japan
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  • Peter Proks

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Henry Wellcome Centre for Gene Function, University of Oxford, OX1 3PT Oxford, United Kingdom
    • Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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  • Yohnosuke Shimomura

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research Centre, Hidaka Hospital, Japan

Received 18 November 2008 ,Accepted 4 February 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2009.02.001

Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 142-144 , March 2010

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