Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 937-939

  Simionescu, Ramona ^a,b   Grover, Sandeep ^a   Shekar, Raja ^a   West, Burton C ^a  

^a Huron Hospital   (United States)

^b Infectious Diseases PC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULTAMICILLIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; AGED; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE; FEMALE; GOLDFISH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; THIGH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; ERYSIPELOTHRIX; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ERYSIPELOTHRIX; ERYSIPELOTHRIX INFECTIONS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 0642366543     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000051742.81317.E9     Document Type: Article

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