Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy typically presents with progressive symmetrical proximal muscle weakness and myalgias, although some cases can present with respiratory and esophageal muscle ...

Necrotizing autoimmune myositis is also known as Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy (IMNM), is an extremely rare autoimmune muscle disease resulting in symptoms such as skeletal muscle inflammation, ...

We report the first case of glossal necrotizing myositis by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus in an 8-year-old girl on chronic nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, immunomodulators, and steroids ...

"Flesh-eating" bacteria can cause serious infections that can result in loss of limbs and even death. Now, a new study reveals just how the bacteria thrive deep in muscle tissue and cause such severe ...

Using a tool first used for strep throat in horses, researchers unveiled the secret life of flesh-eating bacteria, learning how it causes severe disease while living deep within muscle. The team ...

"Flesh-eating" bacteria can cause serious infections that can result in loss of limbs and even death. Now, a new study reveals just how the bacteria thrive deep in muscle tissue and cause such severe ...

Houston Methodist researchers are working to cure flesh-eating bacteria, a deadly disease that attacks the muscle, the hospital announced in a January press release. Although the disease, technically ...

A 24-year-old man has become one of only seven people in the world to survive a flesh-eating superbug after the infection savagely ate his right leg. Sam O'Sullivan, from Melbourne, contracted a soft ...

Recent findings regarding interferon and Janus kinase inhibition may hold clues to improving outcomes in patients with complex myositis, according to a presenter at the Biologic Therapies Summit.

The incidence of myositis has been increasing since the advent of the epidemic of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, and Panton-Valentine leukocidin has been ...

*Summary of the English MEDLINE cases of necrotizing myositis, defined as infectious muscle necrosis with noninvolvement of adjacent fascia and lacking any abscess formation. † Age (yrs); M = male, F ...