Human fulminant gas gangrene caused by Clostridium chauvoei

Noriyuki Nagano; Shinji Isomine; Haru Kato; Yoshimasa Sasaki; Motohide Takahashi; Koji Sakaida; Yukiko Nagano; Yoshichika Arakawa

doi:10.1128/JCM.01895-07

Human fulminant gas gangrene caused by Clostridium chauvoei

J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Apr;46(4):1545-7. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01895-07. Epub 2008 Feb 6.

Authors

Noriyuki Nagano¹, Shinji Isomine, Haru Kato, Yoshimasa Sasaki, Motohide Takahashi, Koji Sakaida, Yukiko Nagano, Yoshichika Arakawa

Affiliation

¹ Department of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Infection Control, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashi-Murayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan. yarakawa@nih.go.jp.

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.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Clostridium Infections / complications*
Clostridium Infections / microbiology
Clostridium Infections / pathology
Clostridium chauvoei / classification*
Clostridium chauvoei / genetics
Clostridium chauvoei / isolation & purification*
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / analysis
Diabetes Complications
Fatal Outcome
Gas Gangrene / microbiology*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Polymerase Chain Reaction
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
RNA, Ribosomal, 23S / genetics

Substances

DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
RNA, Ribosomal, 23S