Systemic toxic reactions such as fever, increased WBC count, and positive cultures. Mental status changes. Absence of Clostridium in blood and wound cultures. Focal necrosis, microvascular ...

1). Gram stain and aerobic and anaerobic cultures of the wound revealed no bacteria. This film, taken 20 hours after a minor laceration of the fifth finger, shows sheets of gas in the dorsum of ...

loescheii; an anaerobe that grew in blood and wound cultures. The patient was treated successfully with aggressive surgical debridement, antibiotics and subsequent wound care. Conclusion.