Pyomyositis secondary to chickenpox

Secondary syphilis with chickenpox in an adult.

When syphilis coexists with other infections, these are usually other venereal diseases, or at least sexuallytransmissible diseases. Of 2,610 patients treated for gonorrhoea at the Boston City Hospital from January, 1965, to December, 1967, 3 per cent. were found to be infected with syphilis (Fiumara and Austen, 1969). Some patients presenting with herpes progenitalis (Fiumara, 1970) later exhi...

Pyomyositis.

Poorly controlled diabetes is associated with an increased risk of infectious complications. With the increasing prevalence of diabetes, many more people are being looked after in primary care. We describe a case of pyomyositis, a potentially severe but uncommon complication of poorly controlled diabetes that was not recognised in the community. Clinicians looking after people with diabetes nee...

[Tropical pyomyositis].

Historically, first case of TP was described by Scriba in 1885, though some authors believe that Virchow was the first one to describe this entity. Since TP was predominantly seen in tropics, various terms like tropical pyomyositis, myositis tropicans, and tropical myositis are used, but nowadays this entity is no longer confined only to tropics. Levine in 1971, reported the first case of TP fr...

Chickenpox vaccination, not chickenpox, should be routine for Canadian children.

Primary multifocal pyomyositis due to Staphylococcus aureus.

A 20-year-old man was referred to our institution with complaints of a 2-week prodrome of myalgia, rigors, drenching sweats and general malaise. There was no history of recent trauma, viral illness, extreme exercise or intravenous drug use. He had no other comorbidities. His only contact with doctors was a year prior to this presentation, when he had a gunshot to his back, with the bullet fragm...