Haemophilus influenzae Pyomyositis in a Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Unique Case and Review of Literature

Haemophilus influenzae is a Gram-negative bacillus commonly known to cause upper respiratory tract infections. Skin and soft tissue infections are very uncommon. Of these, the majority were associated with necrotizing fasciitis requiring emergent debridement. We report a case of pyomyositis caused b...

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Autores principales: Lapumnuaypol, Kamolyut, Fatima, Sanna, Ram, Pradhum, George, Gemlyn, Climaco, Antoinette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5352866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28352482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6307361
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author Lapumnuaypol, Kamolyut
Fatima, Sanna
Ram, Pradhum
George, Gemlyn
Climaco, Antoinette
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description Haemophilus influenzae is a Gram-negative bacillus commonly known to cause upper respiratory tract infections. Skin and soft tissue infections are very uncommon. Of these, the majority were associated with necrotizing fasciitis requiring emergent debridement. We report a case of pyomyositis caused by Haemophilus influenzae in an adult with diabetes.
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spelling pubmed-53528662017-03-28 Haemophilus influenzae Pyomyositis in a Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Unique Case and Review of Literature Lapumnuaypol, Kamolyut Fatima, Sanna Ram, Pradhum George, Gemlyn Climaco, Antoinette Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Haemophilus influenzae is a Gram-negative bacillus commonly known to cause upper respiratory tract infections. Skin and soft tissue infections are very uncommon. Of these, the majority were associated with necrotizing fasciitis requiring emergent debridement. We report a case of pyomyositis caused by Haemophilus influenzae in an adult with diabetes. Hindawi 2017 2017-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5352866/ /pubmed/28352482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6307361 Text en Copyright © 2017 Kamolyut Lapumnuaypol et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Haemophilus influenzae Pyomyositis in a Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Unique Case and Review of Literature
title Haemophilus influenzae Pyomyositis in a Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Unique Case and Review of Literature
title_full Haemophilus influenzae Pyomyositis in a Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Unique Case and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Haemophilus influenzae Pyomyositis in a Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Unique Case and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Haemophilus influenzae Pyomyositis in a Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Unique Case and Review of Literature
title_short Haemophilus influenzae Pyomyositis in a Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Unique Case and Review of Literature
title_sort haemophilus influenzae pyomyositis in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis: a unique case and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5352866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28352482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6307361
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