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Septic arthritis of the knee joint secondary to prevotella bivia
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Septic arthritis of the knee joint secondary to prevotella bivia

Salman A. Salman and Salim A. Baharoon
Saudi medical journal, Vol.30(3), pp.426-432
01/03/2009
PMID: 19271076

Abstract

General & Internal Medicine Life Sciences & Biomedicine Medicine, General & Internal Science & Technology
Prevotella bivia is an obligatory anaerobic, gram-negative rod, which often produces a detectable beta-lactamase. To date, there has been only 3 descriptions of septic arthritis secondary to this microorganism in a patients pre-existing sever joint disease like rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis or after joint prosthesis. We are reporting the first case of septic arthritis due to Prevotella bivia in a patient with no pre-existing joint symptoms.

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