Polymyositis complicating staphylococcal septicaemia.
Inflammatory polymyositis can be precipitated by acute febrile illness of viral origin, but similar association with pyogenic bacterial illness is not recognised. We describe two cases in which recovery from staphylococcal septicaemia was complicated by a widespread inflammatory myopathy.
Department of Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee.
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Hamilton
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Sharp
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Anderson
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Kerr
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009220:Myositis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications*