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Bilateral native knee septic arthritis due to Propionibacterium acnes; a case report and review of literature
- Source :
- Clinical Case Reports, Clinical Case Reports, Vol 7, Iss 8, Pp 1605-1607 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2019.
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Abstract
- Propionibacterium acnes should be considered in any case of indolent septic arthritis. Cultures should be followed for 2 weeks as our cultures were negative for 7 days before growing P. acnes. Irrigation and debridement followed by antibiotics is the standard of care.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Standard of care
bilateral knee P. acnes infection
medicine.drug_class
medicine.medical_treatment
Antibiotics
lcsh:Medicine
Case Report
Case Reports
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
03 medical and health sciences
Propionibacterium acnes
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
indolent native knee septic arthritis
bilateral native knee septic arthritis
lcsh:R5-920
Debridement
biology
business.industry
lcsh:R
General Medicine
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
native knee septic P. acnes infection
Surgery
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Septic arthritis
lcsh:Medicine (General)
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20500904
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Case Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....367b8db92011808c430e6bee49f340bc