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Bilateral tibial chronic osteomyelitis due to Pantoea agglomerans in a patient with sickle cell disease
Service de Médecine Interne, 1Service de Radiologie, 2Service de Bactériologie, CHU Tenon (AP-HP) and 3Service dOrthopédie, CHU Saint-Antoine (AP-HP), Paris, France
Correspondence to: C. Bachmeyer. E-mail: claude.bachmeyer@tnn.aphp.fr
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A 20-yr-old Gabonese man with homozygous SS sickle cell disease and a mechanical aortic valve had leg pain, which was permanent for 2 months. He was healthy and afebrile. A 4-cm abscess was