The epidemiology of necrotizing fasciitis including factors associated with death and amputation

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1609-1614

  Dworkin, M S ^a,b   Westercamp, M D ^a   Park, L ^b   McIntyre, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Necrotizing fasciitis; Streptococcus

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; SWELLING; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMPUTATION; CHICAGO; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEX FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 70349564380     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268809002532     Document Type: Article

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