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Pneumococcal cellulitis: a rare manifestation of pneumococcaemia in adults
N S Peters1, S J Eykyn, A G Rudd
1Department of Medicine, St Thomas' Hospital, London, U.K.
The Journal of Infection
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
An elderly woman with rheumatoid arthritis of 8 years duration and for which she was receiving indomethacin, developed multifocal cellulitis with subsequent necrosis. Streptococcus pneumoniae type 1 was isolated from her blood and from blister fluid. Previous reported cases are summarised.