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An Outbreak of Pyomyositis in a Large Refugee Camp in Thailand
Dale Fanney
Dale Fanney
Prairie Clinic, S.C., Prairie du Sac, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Wisconsin 53578, Israel
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Leonard C. Thomas
Leonard C. Thomas
Prairie Clinic, S.C., Prairie du Sac, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Wisconsin 53578, Israel
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Eleazar Schwartz
Eleazar Schwartz
Prairie Clinic, S.C., Prairie du Sac, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Wisconsin 53578, Israel
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During a 2-month period, 17 cases of pyomyositis were seen in the hospital population of a large refugee camp for Cambodians in Thailand. The temporal clustering of the cases suggests an epidemic pattern. Patients in this series were generally young and otherwise healthy. All had gram-positive cocci demonstrated in abscess pus, and all responded to surgical drainage. Fourteen (82%) of the cases were initially misdiagnosed by volunteer physicians who were unfamiliar with the disease. The authors suggest that a mosquito-borne virus predisposes to the development of the pyomyositis abcess.
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At the time this work was done, the authors were members of the Volunteer Medical Team of the American Refugee Committee, Khao I Dang Holding Center for Kampucheans, Thailand.
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