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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