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Gas gangrene
rareA 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.
- Identifiers
- MONDO:0005767
- Part of
- Bacterial infectious disease with sepsisCommensal bacterial infectious diseaseInfection due to clostridium perfringensSkin disease caused by bacterial infectionVesiculobullous skin disease
- Also known as
- myonecrosis
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