Medical management of pneumococcal arthritis involving a knee prosthesis
- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Arthritis & Rheumatism
- Vol. 30 (8) , 940-942
- https://doi.org/10.1002/art.1780300816
Abstract
Septic arthritis involving prosthetic joints has been frequently reported, with Staphylococcus species being the pathogen most commonly noted. We report a case of septic arthritis of a prosthetic knee caused by Pneumococcus, a previously unreported pathogen in this condition, which uniquely responded to treatment with antibiotics.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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