Hemolytic streptococcus gangrene

FL Meleney - Archives of Surgery, 1924 - jamanetwork.com
Much has been written in the medical literature of all countries engaged in the World War
bearing on various phases of acute bacterial gangrene produced by anaerobic organisms.
But almost no attention has been given to another group of cases characterized by a rapidly
developing gangrenous process from which only the hemolytic streptococcus can be
recovered with regularity. These two groups differ from one another quite widely in several
important respects, both clinically and pathologically. The latter is a clear cut clinical entity …