Human fulminant gas gangrene caused by Clostridium chauvoei

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1545-1547

  Nagano, Noriyuki ^a,b   Isomine, Shinji ^a   Kato, Haru ^b   Sasaki, Yoshimasa ^c   Takahashi, Motohide ^b   Sakaida, Koji ^a   Nagano, Yukiko ^b   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^b  

^a Funabashi Municipal Medical Center   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL VETERINARY ASSAY LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM CHAUVOEI; DIABETES MELLITUS; GAS GANGRENE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; FATALITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CLOSTRIDIUM CHAUVOEI;

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

CLOSTRIDIUM CHAUVOEI; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FATAL OUTCOME; GAS GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S;

EID: 42449105324     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01895-07     Document Type: Article

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