Peripheral Arthritis and Tenosynovitis in a Patient With Brucellosis

Brucellosis is an infectious disease caused by Gram-negative bacteria. Musculoskeletal system involvement is common in patients with brucellosis. Herein we report a patient who presented with bilateral arthralgia in the ankles and diffuse swelling of the left hand in the follow-up. He had been diagn...

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Autores principales: Elmas, Abdülbaki, Ulutaş, Firdevs
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10037351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36968867
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35292
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description Brucellosis is an infectious disease caused by Gram-negative bacteria. Musculoskeletal system involvement is common in patients with brucellosis. Herein we report a patient who presented with bilateral arthralgia in the ankles and diffuse swelling of the left hand in the follow-up. He had been diagnosed with brucellosis and improved well after a 10-week duration of antibiotic therapy. Rheumatic diseases may have many infectious mimickers. Brucellosis is one of those that should be considered in the differential diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-100373512023-03-25 Peripheral Arthritis and Tenosynovitis in a Patient With Brucellosis Elmas, Abdülbaki Ulutaş, Firdevs Cureus Internal Medicine Brucellosis is an infectious disease caused by Gram-negative bacteria. Musculoskeletal system involvement is common in patients with brucellosis. Herein we report a patient who presented with bilateral arthralgia in the ankles and diffuse swelling of the left hand in the follow-up. He had been diagnosed with brucellosis and improved well after a 10-week duration of antibiotic therapy. Rheumatic diseases may have many infectious mimickers. Brucellosis is one of those that should be considered in the differential diagnosis. Cureus 2023-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10037351/ /pubmed/36968867 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35292 Text en Copyright © 2023, Elmas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Peripheral Arthritis and Tenosynovitis in a Patient With Brucellosis
title_full_unstemmed Peripheral Arthritis and Tenosynovitis in a Patient With Brucellosis
title_short Peripheral Arthritis and Tenosynovitis in a Patient With Brucellosis
title_sort peripheral arthritis and tenosynovitis in a patient with brucellosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10037351/
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