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Three cases of deep soft-tissue infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae are presented. All patients were previously healthy adults. The first case was a man with a protracted illness in whom pelvic and inguinal abscesses developed at the site of a scar from a traumatic injury several years earlier. The second patient, a woman, had mastitis with systemic symptoms. The third patient was a woman who developed a gluteal abscess after an intra-muscular injection of a contraceptive. Cellulitis and deep soft-tissue infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae are uncommon, but may occur even in immunocompetent adults.
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Kragsbjerg, P., Norén, T. & Söderquist, B. Deep soft-tissue infections caused byStreptococcus pneumoniae . Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 14, 1002–1004 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01691383
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