Why is gas gangrene contagious?

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Gas gangrene refers to the acute specific soft tissue infection caused by Clostridium, usually seen in severe open soft tissue injury. Clostridium perfringens exists in soil and intestines, and has no invasion and pathogenic effect on human body with intact skin. Even if the wound is contaminated, it is not necessarily pathogenic. Only under appropriate conditions can bacteria grow and reproduce and secrete a variety of exotoxins and enzymes, causing extensive necrosis of local tissues and severe toxemia. So, is gas gangrene an infectious disease?

Why is gas gangrene contagious?

1. Gas gangrene is an infectious disease, not an infectious disease, because infectious diseases can be widely prevalent in the population; Gas gangrene can not be widely spread in the population, it can only be infectious under specific conditions. In the general population with healthy skin, gas gangrene will not spread or cause a pandemic. So it's not an infectious disease.

2. Gas gangrene is neither transmitted through the air like cold virus, nor through the digestive tract like hepatitis A. It is mainly transmitted through contact, resulting in cross infection. If patients are treated within 6 hours, they will not be in danger of life. However, with the deepening of infection bacteria in the wound, if debridement or injection of corresponding antibiotics can not be carried out in time, they will die.

3. Trauma should reduce the direct contact with the wound, pay attention to the disinfection of towels, mattresses and other personal items. Because gas gangrene is only a general infectious disease, not a national legal infectious disease, so the health department has no relevant monitoring mechanism for it. As long as the patients are debridement timely and attention is paid to isolation and disinfection, it will not cause a large area of infectious diseases.

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Gas gangrene refers to the acute specific soft tissue infection caused by Clostridium, usually seen in severe open soft tissue injury. Clostridium perfringens exists in soil and intestines, and has no invasion and pathogenic effect on human body with intact skin.