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 | [e-mail], 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
• Some vibrio vulnificus can lead to necrotizing fasciitis, a severe infection that causes the flesh around open wounds to die, leading many to call the bacteria 'flesh-eating.
  — Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024