Necrotizing Fasciitis Following a Motor Vehicle Accident with Candida Species As the Sole Organisms
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Necrotizing soft-tissue infections exclusively due to Candida species are rare and not usually considered in the differential diagnosis of this devastating condition. When documented previously, Candida species are generally proposed to be a saprophytic component of multibacterial synergistic infection often associated with streptococcal species. We report a case of a 51-year-old man who developed necrotizing fasciitis secondary to Candida infection following a motor vehicle accident. His clinical presentation was very similar to that of clostridial gas gangrene. The only organisms isolated from tissue culture were Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis. Histopathology confirmed yeast forms and pseudohyphae within the debrided tissue specimens. No bacteria were identified on any of the wound swabs or tissue specimens. Our report is the first that reveals Candida as the sole identifiable cause for necrotizing fasciitis following trauma. Candida should be considered in the differential diagnosis of causative organisms for necrotizing fasciitis and infective myonecrosis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".