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Few studies on adult pneumococcal septic arthritis are sufficiently large enough to assess both epidemiological trends following routine pneumococcal immunization and clinical disease. With major shifts in serotypes causing invasive pneumococcal disease (
Catherine Hyams +7 more
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Don L Goldenberg1 in his helpful seminar on septic arthritis, does not mention septic arthritis in children from developing countries. Septic arthritis is rare in children from developed countries but is fairly common in sub-Saharan Africa.2, 3, 4 and 5During 15 months in 1981and#x2013;82, we prospectively studied 88 cases of septic arthritis seen in ...
Molyneux, E, Lavy, C, Lavy, V, Walsh, A
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Septic arthritis, one of the most dangerous joint diseases, is predominantly caused by Staphylococcus aureus. In contrast, coagulase-negative staphylococci are rarely found in septic arthritis. We hypothesize that coagulases released by S.
Manli Na +10 more
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Objective: High mobility group Box–1 (HMGB-1) is related to inflammation and many kinds of arthritic diseases. Septic arthritis is acute infectious arthritis with potentially devastating outcomes and needs to be diagnosed and treated in an emergent ...
Alper Öztürk +6 more
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Purpose: The child with a painful swollen knee must be worked-up for possible septic arthritis; the classic clinical prediction algorithms for septic arthritis of the hip may not be the best models to apply to the knee.Materials and methods: This was a ...
Claudia S. Thomas +5 more
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Septic arthritis due to Nocardia brasiliensis and a review of nocardiosis as a cause of arthritis
Bacteria of the genus Nocardia are implicated in several disease processes but are a rare cause of septic arthritis. Typically, the cause of Nocardia septic arthritis is dissemination from a pulmonary infection in an immunocompromised host.
Divya Chandramohan +2 more
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Purpose To compare the MR findings of septic and acute gouty arthritis of the knee joint. Materials and Methods This retrospective study included patients who underwent knee MRI for septic or gouty arthritis at our hospital between October 2012 and ...
Su Young Yun +3 more
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A case of septic arthritis of the wrist in an infant
Septic wrist arthritis in the pediatric population is very rare. Early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention are important in preventing sequelae of septic arthritis in children. We describe a case of a septic wrist arthritis in infant who was diagnosed
Ayana Kitta +4 more
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Background There are many case reports of septic arthritis complicating invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD); however, no study has compared patients with IPD with septic arthritis to those who didn’t develop septic arthritis Thus, we aimed to determine ...
Thomas J. Marrie +3 more
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Factitious septic arthritis [PDF]
AbstractSeptic arthritis is an uncommon manifestation of factitious illness. We report 2 patients who developed septic arthritis of the knee after repeated self‐administered intraarticular injections. Multiple unusual infective agents were isolated. These cases illustrate malingering and Munchausen syndrome, 2 examples from the spectrum of factitious ...
T G, Elliott, D, Burdge, G D, Reid
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