Pneumatosis coli gas gangrene
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Description: English: Macroscopic, histological and ultrastructural assessment of small intestine tissue. (a) Macroscopic picture of the oedematous intestinal wall with multiple submucosal and subserosal cysts. (b) Histological picture of the intestinal mucosa with areactive necrosis. (c) Gram stain of cysts with large rod-shaped bacteria. (d) Electron microscopic picture of a bacterium found in a submucosal cyst. Date: Published: 24 July 2008. Source: Lethal pneumatosis coli in a 12-month-old child caused by acute intestinal gas gangrene after prolonged artificial nutrition: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2008;2:238. doi:10.1186/1752-1947-2-238. Author: Stefan Kircher, Rupert Wössner, Hans-Konrad Müller-Hermelink, Hans-Ullrich Völker. Permission(Reusing this file): This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- Bacteria
- Firmicutes (gram-positive bacteria)
- Clostridia
- Clostridiales
- Clostridiaceae
- Clostridium
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