Periprosthetic knee joint infection caused by Sneathia sanguinegens.
Infectious arthritis
Knee joint
Periprosthetic infection
Sneathia sanguinegens
Journal
Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy
ISSN: 1437-7780
Titre abrégé: J Infect Chemother
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9608375
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2022
Aug 2022
Historique:
received:
08
12
2021
revised:
12
03
2022
accepted:
21
03
2022
pubmed:
2
4
2022
medline:
9
6
2022
entrez:
1
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Sneathia sanguinegens is a fastidious, Gram-negative, rod-shape organism rarely isolated from human specimens. In the present report, we describe a case of periprosthetic knee joint infection due to the organism, which occurred in a female patient receiving immunosuppressants for underlying lupus nephritis. The causative organism was isolated from the synovial fluid in the affected knee joint through inoculating the material on chocolate agar and incubation for 15 days under 5% CO
Identifiants
pubmed: 35361535
pii: S1341-321X(22)00095-2
doi: 10.1016/j.jiac.2022.03.016
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Anti-Bacterial Agents
0
Carbon Dioxide
142M471B3J
Levofloxacin
6GNT3Y5LMF
Cefepime
807PW4VQE3
Agar
9002-18-0
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1165-1167Informations de copyright
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