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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.
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- Gangrene, Gas
- Gangrenes, Gas
- Gas Gangrenes
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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usually caused by Clostridium perfringens but all C. perfringens infections need not be gas gangrene
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Gas Gangrene. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005738. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005738
- Gas Gangrene. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_gangrene
- Gas Gangrene. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1495085