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Bacteriological Diagnosis of Gas Gangrene due to Clostridium oedematiens

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IN gas gangrene infections it is important to determine the infecting organism as quickly as possible, but hitherto there has been no satisfactory method available for the rapid recognition of Cl. œdematiens. By means of the cultural reaction described below, it is hoped that it will usually be possible to make a provisional diagnosis in less than twenty-four hours. With heavily sown or overgrown plates, in which the reaction may be doubtful, it may be necessary to subculture without delay from a suspected colony to a fresh plate.

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  1. Described as "peptic digest" by Carne, H. R., J. Path. and Bact., 51, 199 (addendum p. 212) (1940).

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NAGLER, F. Bacteriological Diagnosis of Gas Gangrene due to Clostridium oedematiens. Nature 153, 496 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153496a0

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