A Case of Meningococcal Pyomyositis in an Otherwise Healthy Adult

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 cas...

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Autores principales: Barakat, Monique T., Gajurel, Kiran, Fischer, Katrina, Stevens, Kathryn, Ozdalga, Errol, Montoya, José G.
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5047391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27703989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw087
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author Barakat, Monique T.
Gajurel, Kiran
Fischer, Katrina
Stevens, Kathryn
Ozdalga, Errol
Montoya, José G.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-50473912016-10-04 A Case of Meningococcal Pyomyositis in an Otherwise Healthy Adult Barakat, Monique T. Gajurel, Kiran Fischer, Katrina Stevens, Kathryn Ozdalga, Errol Montoya, José G. Open Forum Infect Dis Review Articles 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. Oxford University Press 2016-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5047391/ /pubmed/27703989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw087 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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