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Could you pick up gas gangrene through small cuts?
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Usually not: The area has to become de-oxygenated, and in a healthy person this usually means that there's some heavy-duty contamination both by particulate matter and by the microbes. The 'stepped on a manure-laden rusty nail' scenario can produce gas gangrene just as it can produce tetanus, the related clostridial disease.
Answered 2/23/2014
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