Bacillus pumilus Septic Arthritis in a Healthy Child

We report a case of septic arthritis caused by a Bacillus species, B. pumilus, occurring in a healthy child. This organism rarely causes serious infections and has only been described in newborns and immunocompromised individuals or as a skin infection. This child developed an indolent joint swellin...

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Autores principales: Shivamurthy, V. M., Gantt, Soren, Reilly, Christopher, Tilley, Peter, Guzman, Jaime, Tucker, Lori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4904588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27366165
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3265037
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author Shivamurthy, V. M.
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Tilley, Peter
Guzman, Jaime
Tucker, Lori
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description We report a case of septic arthritis caused by a Bacillus species, B. pumilus, occurring in a healthy child. This organism rarely causes serious infections and has only been described in newborns and immunocompromised individuals or as a skin infection. This child developed an indolent joint swelling after a minor skin injury, and symptoms were initially thought most consistent with chronic arthritis. The case demonstrates that clinicians should consider joint infection in children presenting with acute monoarticular swelling, even without prominent systemic features.
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spelling pubmed-49045882016-06-30 Bacillus pumilus Septic Arthritis in a Healthy Child Shivamurthy, V. M. Gantt, Soren Reilly, Christopher Tilley, Peter Guzman, Jaime Tucker, Lori Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol Case Report We report a case of septic arthritis caused by a Bacillus species, B. pumilus, occurring in a healthy child. This organism rarely causes serious infections and has only been described in newborns and immunocompromised individuals or as a skin infection. This child developed an indolent joint swelling after a minor skin injury, and symptoms were initially thought most consistent with chronic arthritis. The case demonstrates that clinicians should consider joint infection in children presenting with acute monoarticular swelling, even without prominent systemic features. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4904588/ /pubmed/27366165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3265037 Text en Copyright © 2016 V. M. Shivamurthy et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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