A BRIEF REVIEW OF ARTHRITIS AND ALLIED CONDITIONS IN TROPICAL DISEASES

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Abstract
Arthritis is well known as a complication in a limited number of tropical diseases, as: bacillary dysentery; thefungus infections, coccidioidomycosis and Madura foot; filariasis and indulant fever. In certain other tropical diseases, arthritis occurs occasionally or incidentally (sometimes as an extension to the joints from more characteristic lesions elsewhere) as in: yaws, bejel, relapsing fever, rat-bite fever, sporotrichosis, histoplasmosis, leprosy, smallpox, scurvy, tropical ulcer, dracontiasis and onchocerciasis. Body pains which may at times localize to simulate arthritis without actual inflammation of joints are frequent in the spirochetal and rickettsial diseases, and in many of the viral diseases, with dengue the outstanding example. General or local pains may also appear with schistosomiasis, cysticercosis and trichiniasis, as well as in malaria and African trypanosomiasis. On the negative side, note is made of the failure of amoebae and leishmania to attack joints.

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