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Dec, 2016

Primary psoas abscess caused by group A streptococcus in a child: Case report with microbiologic findings.

Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy
  • Yasuko Kamiya
  • Tadao Hasegawa
  • Yasuhiko Takegami
  • Kazuhiro Horiba
  • Shotaro Ando
  • Yuka Torii
  • Hiroyuki Kidokoro
  • Taichi Kato
  • Jun Natsume
  • Jun-Ich Kawada
  • Yoshinori Ito
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Volume
22
Number
12
First page
811
Last page
814
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1016/j.jiac.2016.06.011

Primary abscess of the iliopsoas muscle in children is uncommon, especially due to Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus: GAS), which causes a variety of diseases ranging from pharyngitis to invasive life-threatening infection. We present primary iliopsoas abscess in a nine-year-old boy presenting with fever, mild disturbance of consciousness, limp, and pain in the right loin. Magnetic resonance imaging and isolation of GAS from both blood and abscess samples led us to the confirmative diagnosis. The patient recovered after treatment comprising drainage and intravenous antibiotics. The CovRS system is one of the best-characterized systems with two-component signal transduction in the GAS, and mutations in covRS induce overproduction of various virulence factors that play a crucial role in invasive GAS infection. RopB, also known as a GAS regulator, influences the expression of multiple regulatory networks to coregulate virulence factor expression in GAS. In the present case, sequence analysis revealed the isolated GAS as emm type 6 with alterations in covS, whereas the covR and ropB genes were intact. The covS alterations might have influenced the virulence of the strain causing this severe GAS infection.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiac.2016.06.011
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27692341
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  • DOI : 10.1016/j.jiac.2016.06.011
  • Pubmed ID : 27692341

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