Necrotizing soft tissue infections are rare but are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The use of bedside or intraoperative frozen sections has been reported to be associated with ...

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Can healthy immune cells from a patient be frozen and used in the future to make adoptive cell therapies in the event of a cancer diagnosis? The drug is designed to modulate the acute inflammatory ...

Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) of the head and neck is a rare but rapidly progressive and life-threatening soft tissue infection that constitutes a true ...

What turns a relatively minor skin injury into the life-threatening horror show? That would be necrotizing soft tissue infection, otherwise known as a flesh-eating bacterial infection. New research ...

An Arizona woman was thought to have the flu when she first sought out medical treatment on January 11. After several days of severe pain, doctors realized she was suffering from necrotizing fasciitis ...

The words “flesh-eating bacteria” may conjure images of a widespread infection leading to a zombie apocalypse in a sci-fi film. The reality is a lot less sensational, but no less deadly: Mortality ...

A man who contracted a flesh-eating bacterial infection in his right leg found that the infection had spread to his left one as well, a mere four days later. The 58-year-old man reported to the ...

April 13, 2010 — Updated diagnostic and treatment strategies for immunocompetent patients with skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs), especially community-acquired methicillin-resistant ...

A Pennsylvania business owner is facing a long and uncertain recovery after a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection nearly killed him, sending him into organ failure and leaving his family scrambling ...