Gas gangrene

MONDO:0005767

A severe condition resulting from bacteria invading healthy muscle from adjacent traumatized muscle or soft tissue. The infection originates in a wound contaminated with bacteria of the genus clostridium. C. perfringens accounts for the majority of cases (over eighty percent), while C. noyvi, C. septicum, and C. histolyticum cause most of the other cases.

Also known as: gas gangrene, myonecrosis

6 clinical trials for this condition and its sub-types, 0 tagged with Gas gangrene itself.

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↑ Commensal bacterial infectious disease (273) ↑ Vesiculobullous skin disease (216) ↑ Bacterial infectious disease with sepsis (113) ↑ Skin disease caused by bacterial infection (57) ↑ Infection due to clostridium perfringens (0)

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