Human fulminant gas gangrene caused by Clostridium chauvoei.

ABSTRACT: The first human case of fulminant gas gangrene caused by Clostridium chauvoei, a pathogen causing ruminant blackleg, was confirmed for a 58-year-old man suffering from diabetes mellitus. The patient developed conspicuous emphysematous gangrene in the right chest wall as well as intravascular gas entrapments and died 2 h after hospital arrival.

SUBMITTER: Nagano N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2292918 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature