ABSTRACT
Clostridium sordellii is a gram-positive, anaerobic, nonmotile, spore-forming rod. Like Clostridium perfringens produces a variety of potent exotoxins. Until relatively recent times, C. sordellii was considered to be a common soil enteric bacterium that was rarely isolated from the vagina. Its ability to produce fulminant and lethal wound infections has radically altered that concept.
