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- Title:
- Gangrene, Toes
- Description:
- This patient was photographed in Guatemala, Central America, exhibiting a condition known as typhus gangrene of the right foot, which was determined to be due to a case of typhus fever, also referred to as epidemic louse-borne typhus caused by the bacterium, Rickettsia prowazekii. Note how the toes, and the lateral border of the foot’s plantar surface, had developed a blackened coloration, indicative of tissue necrosis, or gangrene.
- Subject:
- Gangrene
- Creator:
- Dr. D.S. Martin
- Publisher:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- Resource Type:
- Image
