Case Report

Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

Authors: Ramona Simionescu, MD, Sandeep Grover, MD, Raja Shekar, Burton C. West, MD

Abstract

A woman with diabetes mellitus type 2 had a thigh infection that drained foul-smelling pus. Necrotizing fasciitis was diagnosed surgically and histopathologically, with Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae being the predominant organism. A pet goldfish might have been the source.

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