Topic: Necrotizing Infections
AP Features | 2009-03-25 21:26:29
<div><p>A federal judge has upheld most of an $8.5 million judgment awarded to a woman who lost use of her arm due to a flesh-eating bacteria misdiagnosed by an Air Force base doctor.</p><p>Magistrate Judge Philip Frazier last month granted only part of the U.S. government ...
National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Disease | 2008-12-12 06:22:29
Some types of group A strep bacteria cause severe infections, such as . Bacteremia (bloodstream infections) Toxic shock syndrome (multi-organ infection) Necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease) . In 2006, 4,587 cases of severe group A streptococcal disease were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Those at the greatest risk of getting a severe strep infection are . Children with ...
