A Fatal Case of Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by a Highly Virulent Escherichia coli Strain

Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious disease characterized by the necrosis of the subcutaneous tissues and fascia. E. coli as the etiologic agent of necrotizing fasciitis is a rare occurrence. A 66-year-old woman underwent total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. She rapidly...

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Autores principales: Bekal, Sadjia, Vincent, André, Lin, Alex, Harel, Josée, Côté, Jean-Charles, Tremblay, Cécile
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27366162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2796412
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author Bekal, Sadjia
Vincent, André
Lin, Alex
Harel, Josée
Côté, Jean-Charles
Tremblay, Cécile
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Vincent, André
Lin, Alex
Harel, Josée
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description Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious disease characterized by the necrosis of the subcutaneous tissues and fascia. E. coli as the etiologic agent of necrotizing fasciitis is a rare occurrence. A 66-year-old woman underwent total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. She rapidly developed necrotizing fasciitis which led to her death 68 hours following surgery. An E. coli strain was isolated from blood and fascia cultures. DNA microarray revealed the presence of 20 virulence genes.
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spelling pubmed-49061952016-06-30 A Fatal Case of Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by a Highly Virulent Escherichia coli Strain Bekal, Sadjia Vincent, André Lin, Alex Harel, Josée Côté, Jean-Charles Tremblay, Cécile Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol Case Report Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious disease characterized by the necrosis of the subcutaneous tissues and fascia. E. coli as the etiologic agent of necrotizing fasciitis is a rare occurrence. A 66-year-old woman underwent total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. She rapidly developed necrotizing fasciitis which led to her death 68 hours following surgery. An E. coli strain was isolated from blood and fascia cultures. DNA microarray revealed the presence of 20 virulence genes. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4906195/ /pubmed/27366162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2796412 Text en Copyright © 2016 Sadjia Bekal et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bekal, Sadjia
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A Fatal Case of Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by a Highly Virulent Escherichia coli Strain
title A Fatal Case of Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by a Highly Virulent Escherichia coli Strain
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title_fullStr A Fatal Case of Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by a Highly Virulent Escherichia coli Strain
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title_sort fatal case of necrotizing fasciitis caused by a highly virulent escherichia coli strain
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27366162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2796412
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