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Question 4

Several cowboys are involved in an altercation that leads to a gunfight. Three men are wounded.

Two of these men experience a sudden and dramatic onset of inflammation with the appearance of brownish red discoloration, the formation of blisters with brown to red foul-smelling fluid and extremely painful tissue swelling around the gunshot wound.

Gas is present in the affected tissues and the margins of the affected area expand so rapidly that changes are visible over a matter of minutes.

Systemic symptoms develop early in the process and consist of sweating, fever, anxiety and increased heart rate.

Both cowboys develop a shock-like syndrome with decreased blood pressure, renal failure, coma and death.

*Name the condition

*Give the generic specific name of the organism that most often is associated with this condition

*Give the generic specific names of two other organisms that can be associated with similar conditions.

Answer 1

# The name of the condition is Gas gangrene . It is a rapidly spreading gangrene affecting injured tissue infected by a soil bacterium and accompanied by the evolution of foul-smelling gas.

# The generic specific name of the organism that most often is associated with this condition is Clostridium perfringens bacteria.

# The generic specific needs of two other organisms that can be associated with similar conditions are :-

Clostridium sporogenes

Clostridium novyl

Clostridium septicum

Clostridium histolyticum

Group A streptococcus