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PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOSES SEPTIC ARTHRITIS COMPLICATING RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Author(s) -
GORDON D. L.,
PHILPOT C. R.,
McGUIRE C.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1983.tb04657.x
Subject(s) - medicine , septic arthritis , rheumatoid arthritis , arthritis , cirrhosis , surgery
A patient with severe seropositive rheumatoid arthritis and hepatic cirrhosis developed septic arthritis of his knees. Plesiomonas shigelloides was isolated from joint fluid, blood, and also from the gut. The patient's joint symptoms responded to treatment with oral trimethoprim‐sulphamethoxazole, but he died of uncontrolled gastrointestinal bleeding five days later.