Group A streptococcus necrotizing fasciitis.

Group A streptococcus necrotizing fasciitis.

File T M Jr; Tan J S

Comprehensive therapy

2000

1905-06

Necrotizing fasciitis due to Group A streptococcus has been observed with increasing frequency over the past decade. Appropriate management requires rapid recognition of this life-threatening infection and expeditious antimicrobial therapy as well as surgical debridement or excision of tissue.

*Fasciitis; 80 and over; Adult; Aged; Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use; Causality; Debridement; Female; Humans; Immunoglobulins; Intravenous/therapeutic use; Male; Middle Aged; Necrotizing/diagnosis/epidemiology/physiopathology/therapy; Practice Guidelines as Topic

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