Infections with flesh-eating bacteria, known medically as necrotizing fasciitis or necrotizing myositis, can spread quickly in the body and destroy skin, muscle and connective tissue.

Cindy Martinez, a 34-year-old mother of two who lives outside Atlanta, doesn’t know how she contracted necrotizing fasciitis and myositis, but it has already cost her both of her feet and her ...

Devastating disease. Infections with flesh-eating bacteria, known medically as necrotizing fasciitis or necrotizing myositis, can spread quickly in the body and destroy skin, muscle and connective ...

Simple, uncomplicated SSSIs include erysipelas, cellulitis, furuncles, superficial abscesses and wound infections, whereas deeper complicated SSSIs (cSSSIs) include necrotizing fasciitis, myositis ...

Necrotizing autoimmune myositis is also known as Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy (IMNM), is an extremely rare autoimmune muscle disease resulting in symptoms such as skeletal muscle inflammation, ...

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rapidly progressive soft-tissue infection characterized by necrosis of subcutaneous tissue. The usual causative organisms are group A β-hemolytic Streptococcus and ...

Necrotizing fasciitis can progress quickly, producing ulcers, blisters, skin discoloration and pus. Treating flesh-eating bacteria is a race against time. Clinicians administer antibiotics ...

*Summary of the English MEDLINE cases of necrotizing myositis, defined as infectious muscle necrosis with noninvolvement of adjacent fascia and lacking any abscess formation. † Age (yrs); M ...

Necrotizing fasciitis, commonly referred to as a flesh-eating bacteria or flesh-eating disease, is a rare but extremely dangerous infection that targets the skin and underlying tissues. It is a ...

Only around 0.4 people per 100,000 are infected to the point of necrotizing fasciitis each year in the U.S. CDC data shows that, since 2010, there were between 700 and 1,150 cases of necrotizing ...