Abstract
Inflammatory polymyositis can be precipitated by acute febrile illness of viral origin1, but similar association with pyogenic bacterial illness is not recognised. We describe two cases in which recovery from staphylococcal septicaemia was complicated by a widespread inflammatory myopathy.
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