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2599651

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-2-5
pubmed:abstractText
We describe a hypogammaglobulinemic woman with a one-year history of destructive septic osteomyelitis and polyarthritis with positive cultures for Ureaplasma urealyticum from joint exudate and blood. The clinical course was complicated by subcutaneous abscesses from which both U. urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis were grown. Multiple routine cultures had been negative, except for sporadic findings of Staphylococcus epidermidis before specific cultures for mycoplasmas were performed. Therapy with beta-lactam antibiotics, clindamycin, rifampicin, fusidic acid and aminoglycosides had been given without obvious clinical effect. Intravenous doxycycline treatment instituted after microbiological diagnosis had a dramatic effect on the clinical course. The clinical suspicion of mycoplasma and ureaplasma as etiologic agents of orthopaedic infections in hypogammaglobulinemic patients is mandatory in order to perform appropriate cultures.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0300-8126
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
301-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Septic osteomyelitis and polyarthritis with ureaplasma in hypogammaglobulinemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Infectious Diseases, Roslagstull Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports