Necrotising fasciitis and myositis that originated from gastrointestinal bacterial infection: Two fatal cases

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 239-242

  Fujioka, Masaki ^a,b   Nishimura, Gozo ^a   Miyazato, Osamu ^a   Yamamoto, Tsuneyuki ^a   Okamoto, Fumihiro ^a   Tsunenori, Kawashima ^a  

^a Fukuoka Tokushukai Medical Center   (Japan)

^b Fukuoka Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Group A streptococcus; Life threatening infection; Necrotising fasciitis; Vibrio vulnificus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; ENDOTOXIN ANTIBODY; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MINOCYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; FATALITY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOSITIS; NECROSIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; THIGH; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

AGED; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MYOSITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 0041911165     PISSN: 02844311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02844310310000653     Document Type: Article

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