Infectious Diseases
May 9, 2022
Mark Pearce, 61, was facing a possible limb amputation, even death, when a multidrug-resistant bacterial infection within his prosthetic hip replacement device started raging in his bloodstream. With his fever soaring to more than 105 degrees, Mark was taken by ambulance, that day in spring of 2020, to Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2016/03/a-crying-baby-sitting-on-a-nurses-lap-1x1.jpg)
March 18, 2016
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2016/03/CDC-image-of-an-Aedes-aegypti-mosquito-which-carries-the-Zika-virus-1x1-square.jpg)
March 18, 2016
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2016/03/HepatitisC_1x1.jpg)
March 16, 2016
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2016/03/global-digital-image-of-the-world-social-media-1x1-square.jpg)
March 10, 2016
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2016/03/HPVvaccine1x1.jpg)
March 10, 2016
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2016/03/children-at-school-lunch-table-African-America-boy-eating-an-apple-1x1-square.jpg)
March 9, 2016
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2016/01/sick-woman-flu-cold-tissue-headache-1-x-1.jpg)
March 8, 2016
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2016/03/Know-the-ABCs-of-Influenza-on-blue-background-1x1.jpg)
March 8, 2016
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2016/03/Dr.-Greg-Poland-working-in-vaccien-research-lab-1x1-square.jpg)
March 7, 2016
Explore more topics
Sign up
![](https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/n7-mcnn/7bcc9724adf7b803/uploads/2022/07/img30.jpg)
Mayo Clinic Connect
An online patient support community