First Case of Lyme Arthritis Involving a Prosthetic Knee Joint

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. Arthritis is usually a mani­festation of late dis­ease but has not been associated with cases of periprosthetic joint infections. We report on a patient who was first diagnosed with periprosthetic joint in...

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Autores principales: Wright, William F., Oliverio, James A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27419168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw096
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description Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. Arthritis is usually a mani­festation of late dis­ease but has not been associated with cases of periprosthetic joint infections. We report on a patient who was first diagnosed with periprosthetic joint infection and subsequently Lyme arthritis.
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spelling pubmed-49435452016-07-14 First Case of Lyme Arthritis Involving a Prosthetic Knee Joint Wright, William F. Oliverio, James A. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. Arthritis is usually a mani­festation of late dis­ease but has not been associated with cases of periprosthetic joint infections. We report on a patient who was first diagnosed with periprosthetic joint infection and subsequently Lyme arthritis. Oxford University Press 2016-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4943545/ /pubmed/27419168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw096 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943545/
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