Necrotizing fasciitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype f

Christopher J Arnold; Grant Garrigues; Joseph W St Geme 3rd; Daniel J Sexton

doi:10.1128/JCM.01460-14

Necrotizing fasciitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype f

J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Sep;52(9):3471-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01460-14. Epub 2014 Jul 2.

Authors

Christopher J Arnold¹, Grant Garrigues², Joseph W St Geme 3rd³, Daniel J Sexton⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Disease, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA christopher.arnold@duke.edu.
² Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Disease, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Abstract

Haemophilus influenzae is a rare cause of soft tissue infection. In this report, we present a case of multifocal necrotizing fasciitis in a healthy adult patient, secondary to Haemophilus influenzae serotype f infection, and we review literature on this rare cause of necrotizing fasciitis.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Fasciitis, Necrotizing / diagnosis*
Fasciitis, Necrotizing / microbiology*
Fasciitis, Necrotizing / pathology
Female
Haemophilus Infections / diagnosis*
Haemophilus Infections / microbiology*
Haemophilus Infections / pathology
Haemophilus influenzae / classification
Haemophilus influenzae / isolation & purification*
Humans
Middle Aged
Serogroup*