Reactive arthritis developing after pneumococcal conjunctivitis: a case report

BACKGROUND: S. pneumoniae is a known cause of bacterial conjunctivitis and can be transmitted through contact with infected carriers. CASE PRESENTATION: A 38-year-old ophthalmologist developing reactive arthritis following clinic-acquired pneumococcal conjunctivitis. CONCLUSION: (1) Despite the freq...

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Autores principales: Verma, Amit S, Dwarika, Dorian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1839761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17411444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-2
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description BACKGROUND: S. pneumoniae is a known cause of bacterial conjunctivitis and can be transmitted through contact with infected carriers. CASE PRESENTATION: A 38-year-old ophthalmologist developing reactive arthritis following clinic-acquired pneumococcal conjunctivitis. CONCLUSION: (1) Despite the frequency and largely self-limiting nature of infective conjunctivitis, it should be appropriately assessed and managed, as the natural history can occasionally be associated with significant morbidity. (2) Hygienic measures are required to be implemented by both patients and ophthalmic staff to reduce the likelihood of transmission.
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spelling pubmed-18397612007-04-02 Reactive arthritis developing after pneumococcal conjunctivitis: a case report Verma, Amit S Dwarika, Dorian J Med Case Reports Case Report BACKGROUND: S. pneumoniae is a known cause of bacterial conjunctivitis and can be transmitted through contact with infected carriers. CASE PRESENTATION: A 38-year-old ophthalmologist developing reactive arthritis following clinic-acquired pneumococcal conjunctivitis. CONCLUSION: (1) Despite the frequency and largely self-limiting nature of infective conjunctivitis, it should be appropriately assessed and managed, as the natural history can occasionally be associated with significant morbidity. (2) Hygienic measures are required to be implemented by both patients and ophthalmic staff to reduce the likelihood of transmission. BioMed Central 2007-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC1839761/ /pubmed/17411444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-2 Text en Copyright © 2007 Verma and Dwarika; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Reactive arthritis developing after pneumococcal conjunctivitis: a case report
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