Volume 15, Number 4—April 2009
Dispatch
Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (Patera Foot) in Immigrants, Spain
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Figure. Progression of infection (patera foot) in case-patient 7, a previously healthy 21-year-old immigrant from sub-Saharan Africa who reached Spain by sea crossing on a small boat (patera). A) Initial severe skin and soft tissue infection of the lower limbs; B) extensive debridement of the left foot; C) left foot after skin allograft.
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