Necrotizing Fasciitis in a Pediatric Patient Caused by Lancefield Group G Streptococcus: Case Report and Brief Review of the Literature

Table 1

Patients with GGS necrotizing fasciitis (taken from [10–13, 17], and current report).

Age/sex	Comorbidity	Site	Culture source	Therapy	Outcome
75/F	Syringomyelia	L leg	Tissue	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived
80/F	None	R leg	Tissue	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived (skin graft)
49/F	None	L ankle	Tissue	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived
75/M	None	R leg	Tissue	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived
71/M	None	L foot	Skin/bulla	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived (skin graft)
59/M	Not stated	R leg	Skin/blister	Antibiotics, debridement	Died
64/F	Diabetes mellitus	Both legs	Tissue	Antibiotics	Died
65/F	Rheumatoid arthritis	R arm	Blood/tissue	Antibiotics, amputation	Died
52/M	Diabetes mellitus	R leg	Tissue	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived
52/M	Diabetes mellitus	R leg	Tissue	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived
59/M	Hairy-cell leukemia	L leg	Blood/tissue	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived
58/M	Cirrhosis	L leg	Tissue	Antibiotics, debridement	Died
49/F	Rheumatoid arthritis	R leg	Blood/skin	Antibiotics	Died
48/M	None	R leg	Tissue	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived
77/F	Rheumatoid arthritis	R leg	Tissue/blood	Antibiotics	Died
2/M	Vascular/lymphatic malformation	Perineum	Tissue/stool	Antibiotics, debridement	Survived