1. Extraintestinal Clostridioides difficile infection: Septic arthritis 12 months after colitis.
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Amaya SL, Rosa ES, Sergio GF, Noelia A, Lourdes RR, Eduardo G, Patricia RG, and Javier C
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- Adolescent, Adult, Aftercare, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use, Arthritis, Infectious therapy, Child, Child, Preschool, Clostridium Infections drug therapy, Clostridium Infections genetics, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Middle Aged, Prosthesis-Related Infections therapy, Treatment Outcome, Young Adult, Arthritis, Infectious etiology, Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee adverse effects, Clostridium Infections complications, Clostridium Infections diagnosis, Colitis complications, Prosthesis-Related Infections diagnosis, Prosthesis-Related Infections etiology
- Abstract
A 79-year-old male was diagnosed with a total knee prosthetic infection. He had a history of an episode of Clostridioides difficile-associated diarrhoea a year ago. Clostridioides difficile was isolated from the joint fluid and intraoperative tissue samples, and ribotyping demonstrated that the strain was the same that had caused the diarrheic episode, an infrequent ribotype (RT534). The genetic relatedness suggests that the initial infection occurred during that hospitalization, resulting in a chronic prosthetic infection. We have carried out an extensive literature review of all the cases reported in scientific databases of Clostridioides difficile infections with extraintestinal presentation and their relationship with previous colitis., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
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- 2021
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