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1: Diabet Med. 1988 May-Jun;5(4):393-5.Links

Pneumococcal osteomyelitis and cellulitis in an adult patient with diabetes mellitus.

Verhelst JA, Delvigne C.

Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium.

A 48-year-old diabetic patient was admitted to hospital with fever and extensive infection of the tissues around the right elbow. Diagnosis was made of cellulitis and underlying osteomyelitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Although seen in patients with seriously impaired host defence mechanisms pneumococcal osteomyelitis and cellulitis has not been reported in a diabetic patient.

PMID: 2968893 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]