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Case 8






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50 year-old diabetic black female with rapidly progressive necrotizing soft tissue infection of the back.


Submitted by Robert Kazragis, MD, COL, MC, Infectious Disease Service, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, GA. (Photos courtesy of Dr. James North, Dept of Surgery, DDEAMC.)

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