Edwardsiella tarda as a Cause for Limb- and Life- threatening Soft Tissue Infections: What All Plastic Surgeons Need to Know

Summary:. Edwardsiella tarda (ET), a Gram-negative bacterium, causes an extremely uncommon, yet highly aggressive, soft tissue infection. Although plastic surgeons are frequently involved in the primary care, debridement, and secondary reconstruction of difficult soft tissue infections, infections c...

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Main Authors: Alireza Hamidian Jahromi, MD, MRCS, Xi Lin Jing, MD, Edward Luce, MD, FACS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2020-09-01
Series:Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/GOX.0000000000003016