Another cause of necrotizing fasciitis?

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare condition, but has a devastating clinical course if it is not diagnosed early and treated aggressively. There are usually a number of organisms implicated in its pathogenesis, but in this case report a patient is presented in whom the only organism isolated from both tissue and blood cultures was Clostridium septicum. This organism almost always causes a myonecrosis, but in this case only the superficial and deep fascial layers were affected, sparing the underlying muscle. Clostridium septicum resulting in a true necrotizing fasciitis with no myonecrosis and being the only isolate from both blood and tissue cultures has not been previously reported in literature.