NONCLOSTRIDIAL GAS INFECTION IN THE DIABETIC
- 1 September 1951
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 88 (3) , 373-377
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1951.03810090104010
Abstract
ALL OF us are familiar with gas gangrene, the infection produced by Clostridium perfringens (Bacillus welchii). However, very few of us know that other organisms, such as Escherichia coli and anaerobic Streptococcus, can also produce gas infection in tissues. In 1825 Boismont1 first mentioned the spontaneous production of gas in the urinary bladder. He considered it to be a secretion by the mucosa. Chomel2 added the suggestion that the gas might be due to fermentation. Guiard3 first pointed out the occurrence of pneumaturia in diabetic persons in 1883 and reported four cases. In 1888 Favre4 isolated a gas-forming bacterium from the urine of a nondiabetic person who died. Chiari5 in 1893 was the first to describe the formation of gas due to the colon bacillus in the gangrenous tissues of the leg of a diabetic. Animal inoculation with the organism failed to produce gas. HeThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- PNEUMATURIA.JAMA, 1898