gas gangrene
A severe condition resulting from bacteria invading healthy muscle from adjacent traumatized muscle or soft tissue. The infection originates in a wound contaminated with bacteria of the genus clostridium. C. perfringens accounts for the majority of cases (over eighty percent), while C. noyvi, C. septicum, and C. histolyticum cause most of the other cases.
MONDO:0000315
commensal bacterial infectious disease
is_a
MONDO:0005229
bacterial infectious disease with sepsis
is_a
MONDO:0006617
vesiculobullous skin disease
is_a
MONDO:0023149
infection due to clostridium perfringens
is_a
MONDO:0024295
skin disease caused by bacterial infection
is_a
gas gangrene
exact
myonecrosis
exact