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Rhabdomyolysis associated with pneumococcal sepsis
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|May 1, 1985
Summary
Pneumococcal sepsis can lead to rhabdomyolysis, a rare muscle-damaging condition. This report details one case and reviews eleven similar instances of bacterial infections causing rhabdomyolysis.
Area of Science:
- Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Nephrology
Background:
- Rhabdomyolysis, the breakdown of muscle tissue, is an uncommon complication of bacterial infections.
- Pneumococcal sepsis is a severe systemic infection caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.