3 DISCUSSION
This report presented a case of monomicrobial NSTI caused by E.
coli with life-threatening septic shock in a patient with alcoholic
liver cirrhosis. In cases of NSTIs typically the chances of survival
increase with early surgical intervention, preferably within 6 h on
infection onset (5,6). In this case, however, despite prompt incision
and drainage of the infected area within 2 h, it was not possible to
save the patient. The reason for this rapid clinical course resulting in
mortality was presumed to be the susceptibility between the host and
pathogen. Until now not been many reports have investigated the
pathogens in NSTIs at the genetic level (3).