From January 1988 to December 1999, 43 adults with pyomyositis were managed at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria.
Staphylococcus aureus was the most commonly cultured organism (92.5%). All the 41 patients responded well to incision and adequate drainage, antibiotics and partial thickness skin grafting in 10 patients (23.2%). Two patients (4.65%) died from septicaemia, while being resuscitated.
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