Neisseria meningitidis Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease

Primary meningococcal meningitis is an infrequent but known disease. However, the infection of a prosthetic joint with Neisseria meningitidis is rare. We hereby describe the second case of an arthroplasty infected with Neisseria meningitidis that responded favourably to prosthesis retention with sur...

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Autores principales: Becerril Carral, Berta, Alarcón Manoja, Elvira, López Cárdenas, Salvador, Canueto Quintero, Jesús
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28326209
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4545721
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author Becerril Carral, Berta
Alarcón Manoja, Elvira
López Cárdenas, Salvador
Canueto Quintero, Jesús
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description Primary meningococcal meningitis is an infrequent but known disease. However, the infection of a prosthetic joint with Neisseria meningitidis is rare. We hereby describe the second case of an arthroplasty infected with Neisseria meningitidis that responded favourably to prosthesis retention with surgical debridement, in combination with antibiotics treatment.
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spelling pubmed-53432522017-03-21 Neisseria meningitidis Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease Becerril Carral, Berta Alarcón Manoja, Elvira López Cárdenas, Salvador Canueto Quintero, Jesús Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Primary meningococcal meningitis is an infrequent but known disease. However, the infection of a prosthetic joint with Neisseria meningitidis is rare. We hereby describe the second case of an arthroplasty infected with Neisseria meningitidis that responded favourably to prosthesis retention with surgical debridement, in combination with antibiotics treatment. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5343252/ /pubmed/28326209 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4545721 Text en Copyright © 2017 Berta Becerril Carral 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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Neisseria meningitidis Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease
title Neisseria meningitidis Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease
title_full Neisseria meningitidis Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease
title_fullStr Neisseria meningitidis Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease
title_full_unstemmed Neisseria meningitidis Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease
title_short Neisseria meningitidis Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease
title_sort neisseria meningitidis infecting a prosthetic knee joint: a new case of an unusual disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343252/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4545721
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