Disseminated gonococcal infection in elderly patients.

Disseminated Gonococcal Infection in Elderly Patients

Disseminated Gonococcal Arthritis Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Signs and symptoms of gonococcal infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) are overlapping and sometimes difficult to distinguish from the manifestations of SLE itself. We are reporting on a patient with a recent SLE flare who developed disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) as a result of the nature of SLE and the management of a flare.

New microbial and host factors in disseminated gonococcal infection: case report.

Disseminated gonococcal infection was diagnosed in an immunocompromised patient who presented with oliogoarthropathy and tenosynovitis. The gonococcal isolate was prototrophic, showed intermediate resistance to penicillin, and belonged to serogroup WII/III. An isolate from the patient's sexual contact showed similar characteristics. The patient had a Saccharomyces opsonin defect, which is assoc...

Acute Myopericarditis Likely Secondary to Disseminated Gonococcal Infection

Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) is a rare complication of primary infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Cardiac involvement in this condition is rare, and is usually limited to endocarditis. However, there are a number of older reports suggestive of direct myocardial involvement. We report a case of a 38-year-old male with HIV who presented with chest pain, pharyngitis, tenosynovitis, a...

High correlation of the presence of methyladenine in Neisseria gonorrhoeae DNA with the AHU auxotype.

Strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were tested for the presence of methyladenine in the DNA sequence GATC by using the site-specific restriction endonucleases MboI and DpnI. It was found that 43 of 83 strains tested contained methylated DNA. When methylation was compared with the auxotype of the organism, 35 of 35 strains with the AHU (arginine-, hypoxanthine-, and uracil-requiring) auxotype and ...