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We report a case of necrotizing fasciitis of the leg caused by Vibrio cholerae O8 in a 63-year-old immunocompetent man after he had been fishing in a lake on a Croatian island. The strain was cytotoxic, invasive and adhesive and contained a fragment of the gene for El Tor-like hemolysin (El Tor hlyA). After surgical and antibiotic treatment, the patient fully recovered.
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We are very grateful to Eiji Arakawa, Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan, for serotyping of bacterial isolate.
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K. Dobrović, F. Rudman, D. Ottaviani, S. Šestan Crnek, F. Leoni, and J. Škrlin declare that they have no competing interests.
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Dobrović, K., Rudman, F., Ottaviani, D. et al. A rare case of necrotizing fasciitis caused by Vibrio cholerae O8 in an immunocompetent patient. Wien Klin Wochenschr 128, 728–730 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-016-1060-3
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