How to Use necrotizing fasciitis in a Sentence

necrotizing fasciitis

noun
  • Even with treatment, as many as one in three people with necrotizing fasciitis die from the infection.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 16 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
  • 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
  • This species of the bacteria causes necrotizing fasciitis, a condition in which the flesh around a wound dies.
    — Eva Flowe may 1, Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2026
  • 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
  • The most important thing is that somebody suspects that necrotizing fasciitis exists.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 26 June 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
  • Several types of bacteria can cause the level of rapid tissue death that becomes labelled as necrotizing fasciitis.
    — National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • According to the agency, up to 1 in 5 people with necrotizing fasciitis die from the infection.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • According to the agency, up to 1 in 5 people with necrotizing fasciitis die from the infection.
    — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
  • He was then diagnosed with the rare bacterial infection necrotizing fasciitis, known for killing soft tissue.
    — Kelsey McShane, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The new mom was eventually diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating disease.
    — Indianapolis Star, 15 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
  • Her condition was identified as an extremely rare case of mono-microbial necrotizing fasciitis, which can be deadly.
    — Bellamy Richardson, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2022
  • 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
  • Some severe cases can cause an infection called necrotizing fasciitis, which is when the flesh around an open wound dies, the CDC cautions.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • A day after discharge, Hubley returned to the hospital and was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • One form, Vibrio Vulnificus, kills one in five infected patients through necrotizing fasciitis.
    — Eva Flowe june 11, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • O'Hara recovered after spending several weeks in intensive care and undergoing surgery to remove part of his arm in a bid to stop the spread of necrotizing fasciitis.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The next morning, doctors discovered Lipinski’s pain had stemmed from a deadly, flesh-eating disease called necrotizing fasciitis.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The Alabama Department of Public Health has not issued any kind of warning about necrotizing fasciitis.
    — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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

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