Clinical and biological characteristics of Ureaplasma urealyticum induced polyarthritis in a patient with common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia
| Autor: | G J Friou, E J Stanbridge, L de la Maza, B S Andrews, R R Lehmer, J A Robertson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Immunology Mycoplasmataceae medicine.disease_cause Ureaplasma General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Rheumatology Agammaglobulinemia Immunopathology medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy Synovial fluid Arthritis Infectious Tenosynovitis biology business.industry Synovial Membrane Mycoplasmatales Infections bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Microscopy Electron medicine.anatomical_structure Polyarthritis Synovial membrane business Research Article Ureaplasma urealyticum |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 50:574-576 |
| ISSN: | 0003-4967 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/ard.50.8.574 |
| Popis: | Persistent infectious polyarthritis caused by Ureaplasma urealyticum in a patient with common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia is described. The patient developed a symmetrical, destructive polyarthritis and tenosynovitis associated with a markedly depressed synovial fluid glucose concentration and characteristic soft tissue abscesses. The ureaplasma organism developed resistance to multiple antibiotics and persisted for five years. The organism was identified repeatedly in many joints by culture, confirmed by DNA hybridisation, and mycoplasma-like structures were shown in synovial tissues by electron microscopy. |
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