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Acute Septic Arthritis and Skin Abscess Caused byNeisseria cinerea
- Source :
- The Ewha Medical Journal. 37:S24
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- The Ewha Medical Journal, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, 2014.
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Abstract
- Neisseria cinerea is bacteria known as non-pathogenic strain. However, in rare cases, it can cause opportunistic infections. Those diseases caused by N. cinerea include neonatal ophthalmia, proctitis, pneumonia, peritonitis in patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, endocarditis and meningitis. In this report, we describe a patient with septic arthritis and skin abscess of finger joints that was caused by N. cinerea . A 27-year-old man visited the hospital due to swelling, redness and pain of proximal interphalangeal joint of the left second finger. After blood culture test, ceftriaxone was administered on admission and debridement was performed the affected joints. N. cinerea was identified in the blood culture. The patient was improved with ceftriaxone.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
biology
business.industry
fungi
Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
food and beverages
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Surgery
Pneumonia
Skin Abscess
Neisseria cinerea
Ceftriaxone
Medicine
Septic arthritis
Blood culture
business
Meningitis
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22342591 and 22343180
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Ewha Medical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9f22f3cbd490f3046f7f5d1bee3851d7