Clostridium sordelli as a cause of gas gangrene in a trauma patient

Gas gangrene is a necrotic infection of the skin and soft tissue that is associated with high mortality and often necessitating amputation to control the infection. Clostridial myonecrosis is most often cause of gas gangrene and usually present in settings of trauma, surgery, malignancy, and other u...

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Main Authors: Vijeta Bajpai, Aishwarya Govindaswamy, Sonu Kumari Agrawal, Rajesh Malhotra, Purva Mathur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Laboratory Physicians
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/JLP.JLP_108_18