SEROUS ARTHRITIS OF THE KNEE JOINT

Abstract
Salmonellosis in man usually takes one of the following forms: Salmonella fever, Salmonella septicemia, gastroenteritis, localized infections (such as meningitis or arthritis) or the asymptomatic carrier form. Although intestinal infections do not offer many special diagnostic problems, awareness that salmonellosis may involve body sites other than the intestinal tract is necessary for more frequent recognition and diagnosis of extraintestinal infections due to Salmonella. Bone involvements caused by Salmonella organisms are comparatively rare, and Salmonella infections of joints are even more so. Although salmonellosis has been known to exist for many years, Guerra and associates1found only 15 proved cases of infections of bone and joints in a review of articles on the subject up to 1940. More recently the following reports have been made available. One case reported by Vinke and Dowling2involved the knee joint. Edwards and associates3reported, in a series of studies of 2,949

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