Clostridium perfringens, causative agent of gas gangrene (re…
Clostridium perfringens, causative agent of gas gangrene (resulting e.g. from shrapnel wounds) has an extraordinary doubling time of only about 8 to 10 minutes when in the human host. If a patient is brought in with a shrapnel wound with fluids containing an average concentration of about 100 C. perfringens cells per ml, assuming a doubling time of 10 minutes, about what concentration of cells will the patient have in the wound in about an hour if left untreated for this time?