Rhabdomyolysis after group C streptococcal infection. 2010

Hilde Haugedal Nordal, and Bård Reiakvam Kittang, and Laurence A Bindoff
Department of Medicine/Rheumatology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway;

We describe a young woman with a group C streptococcal throat infection complicated by rhabdomyolysis. Muscle biopsy from quadriceps was normal, and molecular studies showed no evidence of direct microbial invasion. This is only the second case in which the usually benign group C streptococcus has been linked with muscle destruction.

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