The bacillus described in this paper occurred in a fatal case of gas gangrene. The cultures were derived from infected muscle at a considerable distance from the wound surface, and no other anaerobes were present in the muscle. The bacillus proved markedly pathogenic for guinea pigs, producing extensive muscle lesions from which pure cultures of the bacillus were always obtained. Thus there is ...

Of four cases of postoperative gas gangrene in three hospitals three followed amputation of legs with gangrenous lesions, and one followed gastrectomy. Clostridium welchii was isolated from the wounds and the faeces of each patient; small numbers of Cl. welchii were found on the floors of the theatres where the operations had been performed.Two infections occurred in one hospital on successive ...

Clostridium perfringens, the most broadly distributed pathogen in nature, produces a prototype phospholipase C, also called α-toxin, which plays a key role in the pathogenesis of gas gangrene. α-Toxin causes plasma membrane disruption at high concentrations, but the role of intracellular mediators in its toxicity at low concentrations is unknown. This work demonstrates that α-toxin causes oxida...

Clostridium pseudotetanicum was isolated along with Serratia marcescens, Proteus mirabilis, and Staphylococcus epidermidis from a patient suffering from gas gangrene who had been injured in the right leg by a power cultivator. Experimental infection of the hind leg of mice with C. pseudotetanicum and the three kinds of aerobic bacteria did not produce any different macroscopic finding in the in...

Most cases of gas gangrene caused by Clostridium species begin with trauma-related injuries but in rare cases, spontaneous gas gangrene (SGG) can occur when patients have conditions such as advanced malignancy, diabetes, or immunosuppression. Clostridium perfringens, a rare cause of SGG, exists as normal flora of skin and intestines of human. Adequate antibiotics with surgical debridement of in...

a fall from a bullock cart. Examination revealed & compound fracture of both the bones of the right leg with gas gangrene spreading up to the lower portion of right iliac fossa. The patient's general condition was poor; he was toxic and the pulse rate over 140 and feeble. Under a small dose of pentothal sodium, a guillotine amputation of the thigh was done as quickly as possible, and the raw su...

1. Spores of the Bacillus welchii group of bacteria were found on 100 per cent of the uniforms of Belgian soldiers who had come directly from the trenches, and in the meshes of all the samples examined of the new cloth from which the uniforms were made. 2. In fifteen out of twenty fresh war wounds members of this group of bacteria were found. Of the fifteen patients, only three later developed ...