A rare Case of Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by Vibrio Cholerae O8 in an Immunocompetent Patient

Overview

Journal Wien Klin Wochenschr

Publisher Springer

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2016 Sep 9

PMID 27604649

Citations 9

Authors

Karolina Dobrovic

Franjo Rudman

Donatella Ottaviani

Sandra Sestan Crnek

Francesca Leoni

Jasenka Skrlin

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Abstract

We report a case of necrotizing fasciitis of the leg caused by Vibrio cholerae O8 in a 63-year-old immunocompetent man after he had been fishing in a lake on a Croatian island. The strain was cytotoxic, invasive and adhesive and contained a fragment of the gene for El Tor-like hemolysin (El Tor hlyA). After surgical and antibiotic treatment, the patient fully recovered.

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