• Postgrad Med J · Jan 1980

    Case Reports

    Bacterial pyomyositis in a patient with aplastic anaemia.

    • R Mitsuyasu and R P Gale.
    • Postgrad Med J. 1980 Jan 1; 56 (651): 61-2.

    AbstractBacterial pyomyositis is common in the tropids but is rare in temperate climates. A patient with aplastic anaemia who had never left the continental United States developed bacterial pyomyositis secondary to Staphylococcus aureus which responded to antibiotics and surgical drainage. Bacterial pyomyositis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of fever and myalgias in the immunocompromised patient.

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