How to Use necrotizing fasciitis in a Sentence

necrotizing fasciitis

noun
  • It is believed to be the second case of necrotizing fasciitis at a Florida beach in just the past month.
    CBS News, 1 July 2019
  • The infection became the flesh-eating necrotizing fasciitis and caused the boy's brain to swell.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Even with treatment, as many as one in three people with necrotizing fasciitis die from the infection.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al.com, 16 July 2019
  • First, doctors need to figure out if there are specific strains of group A strep that are more likely to cause necrotizing fasciitis.
    National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • In August 2016, Moore contracted a rare flesh-eating disease called necrotizing fasciitis, putting him on the brink of death.
    Chris Nelsen, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2018
  • According to the agency, up to 1 in 5 people with necrotizing fasciitis die from the infection.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • All of these patients had either gone crabbing in the Delaware Bay or consumed seafood from the area, and all of the patients developed necrotizing fasciitis.
    Rachael Rettner, Scientific American, 18 June 2019
  • Antibiotics and surgery are typically the first lines of defense in cases of necrotizing fasciitis, according to the CDC.
    Susan Scutti, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Both involve red, warm, swollen or painful rashes, though necrotizing fasciitis spreads quickly and can turn into ulcers, blisters or black spots.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The most important thing is that somebody suspects that necrotizing fasciitis exists.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2019
  • The Alabama Department of Public Health has not issued any kind of warning about necrotizing fasciitis.
    Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
  • Her necrotizing fasciitis infection was the most painful thing, in body and mind, the special education teacher had ever endured.
    AZCentral.com, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Several types of bacteria can cause the level of rapid tissue death that becomes labelled as necrotizing fasciitis.
    National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Typically once it is recognized that this could be necrotizing fasciitis, surgery is done to remove the dead and infected tissue and start to curb the infection, experts say.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2019
  • Christin Lipinski, a Peoria teacher and mom of three, spent two and a half months in the center after contracting necrotizing fasciitis in January 2018.
    AZCentral.com, 4 Aug. 2022
  • As many as one-third of people with necrotizing fasciitis die from infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    USA Today, 13 Dec. 2019
  • In Portland, the surreal nightmare continued as surgeons tried to stay ahead of the rare but deadly infection, known as necrotizing fasciitis, by amputating parts of the boy's body.
    CBS News, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Flesh-eating bacteria, also known as necrotizing fasciitis, is a rare bacterial infection that spreads quickly in the body and can cause death, according to the CDC.
    Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • But iGAS occurs when the bacteria spread in the body and cause severe infection, such as necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease), toxic shock syndrome, or sepsis.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2023
  • A day after discharge, Hubley returned to the hospital and was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis.
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The infection that has been linked to these medications is called necrotizing fasciitis of the perineum, or Fournier’s gangrene, and the FDA is now requiring that a warning be added to the prescribing information of these pills about this risk.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Aug. 2018
  • While infections from group A strep are generally mild, in the case of necrotizing fasciitis, the bacteria spread quickly and can become deadly in a short period of time without prompt treatment.
    Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2017
  • She was informed the ailment was necrotizing fasciitis — a rare but deadly bacterial infection that kills the body's soft tissue, reports CBS Local.
    Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The threat of necrotizing fasciitis, known commonly as flesh-eating bacteria, which can be contracted in surprising ways.
    Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2018
  • Getting a chicken pox vaccination can also help because having chicken pox is one of the highest risks of getting necrotizing fasciitis group A strep, Belcher says.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2019
  • She was rushed to the emergency room by ambulance and was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a rare but deadly bacterial infection that kills the body's soft tissue.
    CBS News, 3 July 2019
  • He was then diagnosed with the rare bacterial infection necrotizing fasciitis, known for killing soft tissue.
    Kelsey McShane, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017
  • He was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis - a rare bacterial infection that kills soft tissue - and died six days later.
    The Washington Post, AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Once acquired, the infection can destroy soft tissue, a condition called necrotizing fasciitis, though other infections can cause it as well.
    Amy Bennett Williams, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The new mom was eventually diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating disease.
    Indianapolis Star, 15 Oct. 2017

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