A Case of Meningococcal Pyomyositis in an Otherwise Healthy Adult.
Open Forum Infect Dis
; 3(3): ofw087, 2016 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
The clinical spectrum of Neisseria meningitidis can range from nasopharyngeal colonization to life-threatening invasive diseases such as meningitis. However, its etiologic role in invasive pyomyositis (PM) has never been reported before in the English language. In this study, we report the first case of PM in the English language and the second case in the literature caused by N meningitidis.
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