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Portable chest x-ray of a 51-year-old woman presenting with necrotizing fasciitis, toxic shock syndrome and community-acquired pneumonia in the absence of respiratory symptoms. Figure by Dr Ben Tan, Division of Infectious Diseases, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan