Gas Gangrene Definition(Oakley, 1954) Gas gangrene is defined as a rapidly spreading, edematous myonecrosis, occurring in association with severely crushed wounds contaminated with pathogenic clostridia, particularly with C. perfringens. Previously, the disease was called malignant edema or clostridial myonecrosis. Etiological Agents Gas gangrene is always polymicrobial and is caused by…