Cellulitis in complicated pneumococcal pneumonia.
Serious complications of pneumococcal pneumonia have become uncommon. This has been attributed to decline in pneumococcal infection (van Roy et al. 1971; Foy et al. 1975), but in this country it is more likely to be due to effective antibiotic therapy. We report a case of pneumococcal pneumonia with severe complications (including a very unusual one) which probably arose through antibiotic failure.
D000368:Aged; D001168:Arthritis / Q000150:complications; D002481:Cellulitis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007010:Hyponatremia / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000150:complications; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000150:complications*