OBJECTIVE To establish the risk factors for joint infection by oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) using clinical and epidemiological data. METHODS All septic arthritis cases of the knee and hip diagnosed and treated in our institution from 2006 to 2012 were evaluated retrospectively. Only patients with cultures identified as microbial agents were included in the study. The clini...

Accepted for publication 9 September 1992 Abstract Acute polyarthritis is an important cause of morbidity in many tropical countries. Classification has often been difficult, with the term tropical polyarthritis used for those in whom a diagnosis could not be made. The implication thatthis is a distinct entity isprobablyincorrect, with likely causes being septic arthritis or post-infective reac...

Patients occasionally present with sudden onset of back pain, deformity and fever but with radiographs which, though taken after an appropriate interval, seem to exclude sepsis in the disc or vertebral body. Since there are many synovial joints in the spine, it seemed possible that septic arthritis of a facet joint might explain the discrepancy. A search of the world literature back to 1966, ho...

INTRODUCTION A misdiagnose and inadequate treatment of neonatal septic arthritis of the hip has multiple sequelae and causes a severe disability. The aim of this study is evaluation of treatment of residual deformity after type IVA neonatal septic arthritis of the hip by Pelvic support osteotomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 11-year-old, white girl, was treated surgically by pelvic support osteotomy. ...

Mycobacterium szulgai is a rarely reported human pathogen that causes a variety of clinical syndromes. We report a case of an M. szulgai septic arthritis and osteomyelitis in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection manifesting as an immune reconstitution syndrome. (Infect Dis Clin Pract 2006;14:392–393) M ycobacterium szulgai is a nontuberculous mycobacte rium that is a relatively...

The Gram-negative bacilli Acinetobacter baumannii, Burkholderia cepacia, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Pseudomonas mendocina, Ralstonia spp., Serratia marcescens and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia are ubiquitous environmental organisms of low virulence, and do not usually cause illness in immunocompetent hosts. We report a case of multiple concurrent opportunistic Gram-negative bacilli causing septic ar...

BACKGROUND Pyomyositis is a rare condition in immune competent patients and is usually seen in tropical countries. Pyomyositis of obturator muscles in particular is an extremely rare condition, which causes hip pain and mimics septic arthritis. CASE REPORT This is a case report of a 9-year-old boy without an underlying disease or a compromised immune system, who presented with knee pain that ...

Nocardia is a gram positive, aerobic branched actinomycete; it is an ubiquitous soil saprophyte. As an infecting agent it has been increasingly identified in humans, especially in immuno-suppressed hosts. Nocardia as a cause of septic arthritis is very unusual. The described genus was Nocardia asteroides in nearly all previously reported cases. We report an unusual case of spontaneous Nocardia ...

An increasing number of surgeons adopt the concept vancomycin soaking graft in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and report drastically reduced numbers postoperative septic knee arthritis. This reduction incidence is supported by vitro data, showing no influence on tendon material properties. Although applied antibiotic concentration has reported to be potent eradicating contamination, ...