Salmonella Gas-forming Femoral Osteomyelitis and Pyomyositis: the First Case and Review of the Literature
Opass Putcharoen MD*, Chusana Suankratay MD, PhD*
Affiliation : * Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
The authors describe the first case of Salmonella serogroup D gas-forming femoral osteomyelitis and pyomyositis in a 51-year-old man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The patient was successfully treated with surgical debridement as well as clindamycin plus ceftriaxone, and then switched to ciprofloxacin. However, he eventually died due to multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia. In addition, five cases of Salmonella gas-forming pyomyositis in the literature were reviewed.
Keywords : Salmonella, Pyomyositis, Gas-forming, Osteomyelitis, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
