Septic Arthritis and Hemarthroses Caused by Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype A in Children

Invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype A (Hia) is rare in children. Clinical syndromes caused by Hia include meningitis, sepsis and respiratory tract infections. Septic arthritis is rare in children with invasive Hia infection and hemarthrosis has not been described in the publis...

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Autores principales: Samraj, Ravi S., Fergie, Jaime
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062627/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2016.6494
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description Invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype A (Hia) is rare in children. Clinical syndromes caused by Hia include meningitis, sepsis and respiratory tract infections. Septic arthritis is rare in children with invasive Hia infection and hemarthrosis has not been described in the published literature. We report a case of septic arthritis and hemarthrosis caused by Hia infection in a 2.5 year-old-boy and review invasive Hia infection in children.
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spelling pubmed-50626272016-12-15 Septic Arthritis and Hemarthroses Caused by Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype A in Children Samraj, Ravi S. Fergie, Jaime Infect Dis Rep Case Report Invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype A (Hia) is rare in children. Clinical syndromes caused by Hia include meningitis, sepsis and respiratory tract infections. Septic arthritis is rare in children with invasive Hia infection and hemarthrosis has not been described in the published literature. We report a case of septic arthritis and hemarthrosis caused by Hia infection in a 2.5 year-old-boy and review invasive Hia infection in children. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5062627/ http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2016.6494 Text en ©Copyright R.S. Samraj and J.Fergie http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Septic Arthritis and Hemarthroses Caused by Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype A in Children
title_full Septic Arthritis and Hemarthroses Caused by Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype A in Children
title_fullStr Septic Arthritis and Hemarthroses Caused by Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype A in Children
title_full_unstemmed Septic Arthritis and Hemarthroses Caused by Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype A in Children
title_short Septic Arthritis and Hemarthroses Caused by Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype A in Children
title_sort septic arthritis and hemarthroses caused by haemophilus influenzae serotype a in children
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