title: An outbreak of pyomyositis in a large refugee camp in Thailand.
abstract: During a 2-month period, 17 cases of pyomyositis were seen in the hospital population of a large refugee camp for Cambodians in Thailand. The temporal clustering of the cases suggests an epidemic pattern. Patients in this series were generally young and otherwise healthy. All had gram-positive cocci demonstrated in abscess pus, and all responded to surgical drainage. Fourteen (82%) of the cases were initially misdiagnosed by volunteer physicians who were unfamiliar with the disease. The authors suggest that a mosquito-borne virus predisposes to the development of the pyomyositis abscess.
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002160:Cambodia / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009220:Myositis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012036:Refugees; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013785:Thailand
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents