Clostridium novyi causing necrotising fasciitis in an injecting drug user.

Clostridium novyi infection: a fatal association with injecting drug users.

Injecting drug users frequently use accident and emergency (A&E) departments to access emergency care for local and systemic infections. Clostridium novyi type A is a bacterium that has recently been associated with a number of fatalities among drug injecting addicts. The clinical course is described of a patient who attended an A&E department with septicaemia who was found at postmortem examin...

CASE REPORTS Clostridium novyi infection: a fatal association with injecting drug users

Injecting drug users frequently use accident and emergency (A&E) departments to access emergency care for local and systemic infections. Clostridium novyi type A is a bacterium that has recently been associated with a number of fatalities among drug injecting addicts. The clinical course is described of a patient who attended an A&E department with septicaemia who was found at postmortem examin...

The Treatment of a Gangrenous Leg.

TO THE EDITOR—Several of us have served in the military, and the recent cover of Clinical Infectious Diseases (The Treatment of a Gangrenous Leg, woodcut, 16th century) [1] intrigued us. We wondered how much aggressive surgical debridement and effective antibiotic regimens have improved survival of patients with gas gangrene since that time? Clostridialmyonecrosis (gas gangrene), a monomicrobia...

Isolation and typing of Clostridium oedematiens (Cl. novyi) from cases of black disease of sheep in Iran

Les maladies causées par Clostridium perfringens et Cl. novyi