The INFECT-Project: An International and Multidisciplinary Project on Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections

Mattias Svensson; Anna Norrby-Teglund

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-57616-5_1

The INFECT-Project: An International and Multidisciplinary Project on Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2020:1294:1-6. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-57616-5_1.

Authors

Mattias Svensson¹, Anna Norrby-Teglund²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden. mattias.svensson@ki.se.
² Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.

PMID: 33079359
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57616-5_1

Abstract

This book describes clinical and microbiologic aspects, pathogenesis, and diagnostics, related to the severe and rapidly spreading necrotizing soft tissue infections. The work has its foundation in a recently completed European Union funded FP7-project called INFECT, which during the period 2013-2018 focused on utilizing a systems medicine approach to increase our understanding of these heterogenous and complex life-threatening infections. In this chapter, the aim and scope as well as key achievements of the INFECT-project are described.

Keywords: Necrotizing soft tissue infections; Pathogenesis; Systems medicine.

Publication types

Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

European Union / organization & administration
Humans
Multicenter Studies as Topic
Necrosis
Soft Tissue Infections* / diagnosis
Soft Tissue Infections* / pathology
Soft Tissue Infections* / therapy