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Necrotizing fasciitis with ruminococcus

Published:2008-02-01 Issue:2 Volume:57 Page:246-248
ISSN:0022-2615
Container-title:Journal of Medical Microbiology
language:en
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Author:

Livaoğlu Murat¹,Yilmaz Gürdal²,Kerimoğlu Servet³,Aydin Kemalettin²,Karacal Naci¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Karadeniz Technical University School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey

2. Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Karadeniz Technical University School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey

3. Department of Orthopedics, Karadeniz Technical University School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey

Abstract

Necrotizing fasciitis is a life- and limb-threatening soft tissue infection. Due to its underlying predisposition and rapid progression, treatment should be started quickly using antibiotherapy and surgical intervention. Although necrotizing fasciitis is mainly caused by streptococci and staphylococci, it may also be polymicrobial. Other peptostreptococci have been reported as necrotizing fasciitis agents in the literature, though we encountered no cases of necrotizing fasciitis caused by Ruminococcus productus. Here, we describe a case of necrotizing fasciitis caused by R. productus, a Gram-positive, obligatory anaerobe.

Publisher

Microbiology Society

Subject

Microbiology (medical),General Medicine,Microbiology

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