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I too am interested in you checking the spelling. Because true colitus is very serious. Fulminant, or grangrenous, colitus is a rare but extremely severe form of intestinal amebiasis. Patients present with severe bloody diarrhea, fever, and diffuse abdominal tenderness. Most of the mucosa is involved and mortality exceeds 50%. A chronic amebiasis, characterized by recurrent attacks of dysentery with intervening periods of mild or moderate gastrointestinal symptoms, can also occur.
Since you did not mention any of the gut issues, I am hoping you are mistaken. Did you perhaps mean cellulitis?
There is a good study by Steve Lee, MD, Fellow, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation. You can read it here:
http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic798.htm
If you mean cellulitis, another great article is available at:
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:uEEzFY0kGgYC:www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410095_print+Fulminant+finger+infection&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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