PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sejal Makvana Bhavsar
AU  - Gail F Shust
TI  - Invasive group G streptococcal infection in a paediatric patient
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2016-217790
DP  - 2016 Dec 19
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr2016217790
VI  - 2016
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2016/bcr-2016-217790.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2016/bcr-2016-217790.full
AB  - We present a paediatric case of group G streptococcal bacteraemia and vertebral osteomyelitis. The patient is a 14-year-old girl with Gaucher disease type 1 who presented with severe thoracolumbar pain. She was treated with a 4-week course of antibiotics for presumed osteomyelitis with clinical improvement.