PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Blake Anthony Sykes
AU  - Hans Krause
AU  - Michael Lamparelli
AU  - David Austin
TI  - <em>Saksenaea</em> mucormycosis: a rare and dangerous cause of necrotising fasciitis
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2022-254183
DP  - 2023 Mar 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - e254183
VI  - 16
IP  - 3
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/16/3/e254183.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/16/3/e254183.full
SO  - BMJ Case Reports2023 Mar 01; 16
AB  - Necrotising fasciitis is a rapidly progressing soft tissue infection requiring early and adequate surgical debridement and appropriate antibiotic cover. The present case highlights bacterial fasciitis associated with fungal (Mucor) infection with insidious angioinvasive nature (Saksenaea vasiformis) which required amputation, negative-pressure vacuum dressings and amphotericin B for definitive treatment. This demonstrates a relatively rare case of the group IV classification of necrotising fasciitis, which we must consider when there is slowly progressing tissue death despite seemingly adequate treatment.