Clostridium novyi causing necrotising fasciitis in an injecting drug user

Clostridium novyi causing necrotising fasciitis in an injecting drug user

Necrotising fasciitis with pronounced local oedema is described in an injecting drug user. Clostridium novyi was an unexpected single pathogen isolated from infected tissue. The patient was among a cluster of cases, all injecting drug users, presenting with toxaemia and soft tissue infection. The ca...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of clinical pathology 2002-02, Vol.55 (2), p.141-142
Hauptverfasser: Noone, M, Tabaqchali, M, Spillane, J B
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Animals
Antibiotics
Bacterial diseases
Bacterial diseases of the skin
Bacteriology
Biological and medical sciences
Blood
Case Reports
Causes of
Cellulitis
Clostridium
Clostridium Infections - complications
Clostridium Infections - transmission
Clostridium novyi
Complications and side effects
Drug abuse
Edema
FAA
Fasciitis, Necrotizing - microbiology
fastidious anaerobic agar
Female
Heroin
Human bacterial diseases
Humans
Infections
Infectious diseases
injecting drug user
Laboratories
Medical sciences
necrotising fasciitis
Necrotizing fasciitis
Substance Abuse, Intravenous - complications
Surgery
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Zusammenfassung:Necrotising fasciitis with pronounced local oedema is described in an injecting drug user. Clostridium novyi was an unexpected single pathogen isolated from infected tissue. The patient was among a cluster of cases, all injecting drug users, presenting with toxaemia and soft tissue infection. The causal role and pathogenicity of C novyi is discussed.
ISSN:0021-9746
1472-4146
DOI:10.1136/jcp.55.2.141