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).