Senthilkumaran Subramanian, Menezes Ritesh G, Pant Sadip, Khartode Chhagan P, Balamurugan Namasivayam, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian Ponniah
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Sri Gokulam Hospital and Research Institute, Salem, India.
Trop Doct. 2012 Apr;42(2):104-5. doi: 10.1258/td.2011.110356. Epub 2012 Feb 15.
We report a case of gas gangrene (GG) in a non-diabetic HIV seronegative man who died within 60 hours following an intramuscular injection in rural India. The occurrence of GG after intramuscular injection is rare and only a few cases have been reported in the published literature.