Woman treated with antibiotics and hyperbaric oxygen therapy to survive infection by pathogen that causes blackleg disease in cattle and sheep
When exploring exposure history of the patient, it is common with infectious diseases to ask about exposure to gardening soil. Ko discovered the woman had been in the process of moving houses and repotting her plants, and had scratches on her arms from her cats, who had been agitated by the change in the environment.
bacterium that causes blackleg is a cousin of the bacteria that cause botulism and tetanus, which are also picked up from the soil and grow when they get into a nutrient-rich environment that has no oxygen. Over her first week, the woman made a relatively quick recovery, with her liver and kidney function improving after receiving antibiotics and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a procedure used to increase the amount of oxygen reaching body tissue, Ko said.
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