Hvor kan nekrotiserende fasciitis findes i verden?
Necrotizing fasciitis
Nekrotiserende fasciitis rammer ca. 0,4 ud af hver 100.000 mennesker om året i USA. Der var ca. 1.000 tilfælde af nekrotiserende fasciitis tilfælde om året i USA, men antallet er dog stigende. Dette kan skyldes en stigende bevidsthed om denne tilstand, hvilket fører til øget rapportering, eller der kan være tale om stigende bakteriel virulens eller stigende bakteriel resistens over for antibiotika. I nogle områder af verden er det så almindeligt som 1 ud af 100 000 mennesker.
Necrotizing fasciitis affects about 0.4 in every 100,000 people per year in the United States. There were about 1,000 cases of necrotising fasciitis cases per year in the United States, however, the rates have been increasing. This could be due to increasing awareness of this condition, leading to increased reporting, or there could be increasing bacterial virulence, or increasing bacterial resistance against antibiotics. In some areas of the world it is as common as 1 in every 100,000 people.
Necrotizing fasciitis