Clostridium sordellii as a Cause of Fatal Septic Shock in a Child with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Table 1

The list of the biochemical tests on the panel.

Substrates	Abbreviations	Organism reaction
p-Nitrophenyl-β-D-galactopyranoside	BGAL	Negative
p-Nitrophenyl-α-D-galactopyranoside	AGAL	Negative
bis-p-Nitrophenyl-phosphate	BPO4	Negative
p-Nitrophenyl-N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminide	NGLU	Negative
p-Nitrophenyl-α-D-glucopyranoside	AGL	Positive
o-Nitrophenyl-β-D-glucopyranoside	BGL	Negative
p-Nitrophenyl-phosphate	PO4	Negative
p-Nitrophenyl-α-L-fucopyranoside	AFU	Positive
p-Nitrophenyl-α-D-mannopyranoside	MNP	Negative
L-Leucine-β-naphthylamide	LEU	Negative
DL-Methionine-β-naphthylamide	MET	Negative
L-Lysine-β-naphthylamide (alkaline)	LYB	Negative
Substrates	Abbreviations	Negative
L-Lysine-β-naphthylamide (acid)	LYA	Negative
Glycylglycine-β-naphthylamide	GGLY	Negative
Glycine-β-naphthylamide	GLY	Negative
L-Proline-β-naphthylamide	PRO	Positive
L-Arginine-β-naphthylamide	ARG	Negative
L-Pyrrolidonyl-β-naphthylamide	PYR	Negative
L-Tryptophan-β-naphthylamide	TRY	Negative
3-Indoxyl phosphate	IDX	Negative
Trehalose	TRE	Negative
Urea	URE	Positive
Indole	IND	Positive
Nitrate	NIT	Negative

This set of biochemical reactions was compared to the MicroScan Database for Clostridia species. The result for this set of positive and negative biochemical reactions was consistent with a 99.99% probability of Clostridium sordellii.