Pyogenic infection
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A pyogenic infection is an infection that is characterized by severe local inflammation, usually with pus formation, generally caused by one of the pyogenic bacteria.[1]
Some common disease processes caused by pyogenic infections are impetigo, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, and necrotizing fasciitis.[citation needed][2]
Pyogenic bacteria
This is a list of pyogenic bacteria.[3]
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Staphylococcus epidermidis
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Escherichia coli (Bacillus coli communis)
- Streptococcus pneumoniae (Fraenkel's pneumococcus)
- Klebsiella pneumoniae (Friedländer's bacillus)
- Salmonella typhi (Bacillus typhosus)
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae
- Actinomyces
- Burkholderia mallei (Glanders bacillus)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tubercle bacillus)
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- ↑ pyogenic infection at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ↑ "Infections Caused by Common Pyogenic Bacteria", Dermatopathology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 83–85, doi:10.1007/3-540-30244-1_12
- ↑ Thompson, Alexis; Miles, Alexander (1921). "Pyogenic Bateria". Manual of Surgery. Oxford Medical Publications.
