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Intensive care management of a patient with necrotizing fasciitis due to non-O1/O139 Vibrio cholerae after traveling to Taiwan: a case report.

Keisuke TsurutaToru UeyamaTomoo WatanabeKenichi NakanoKenji UnoHidetada Fukushima
Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2020)
With the increase in tourism, it is important for clinicians to check patients' travel history. Clinicians should be alert to the possibility of necrotizing fasciitis in patients with risk factors. Necrotizing fasciitis caused by NOVC is severe and requires early fasciotomy and debridement followed by intensive postoperative care.
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