A Rare Case of Gemella haemolysans Infection of Knee Arthroplasty

Gemella haemolysans is a facultative, catalase-negative, anaerobic, gram-positive cocci. It is known to mostly cause endocarditis, meningitis, peritonitis, and cerebral abscesses. However, it is extremely rare for this organism to cause infections of an orthopedic nature, with only a single report o...

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Autores principales: Patell, Kanchi, Al Armashi, Abdul Rahman, Somoza-Cano, Francisco J, Ravakhah, Keyvan, Han, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8429040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34522551
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17073
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author Patell, Kanchi
Al Armashi, Abdul Rahman
Somoza-Cano, Francisco J
Ravakhah, Keyvan
Han, Julia
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Al Armashi, Abdul Rahman
Somoza-Cano, Francisco J
Ravakhah, Keyvan
Han, Julia
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description Gemella haemolysans is a facultative, catalase-negative, anaerobic, gram-positive cocci. It is known to mostly cause endocarditis, meningitis, peritonitis, and cerebral abscesses. However, it is extremely rare for this organism to cause infections of an orthopedic nature, with only a single report of infection in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We present a rare case of knee arthroplasty infection caused by G. haemolysans four years after an uncomplicated TKA procedure.
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spelling pubmed-84290402021-09-13 A Rare Case of Gemella haemolysans Infection of Knee Arthroplasty Patell, Kanchi Al Armashi, Abdul Rahman Somoza-Cano, Francisco J Ravakhah, Keyvan Han, Julia Cureus Internal Medicine Gemella haemolysans is a facultative, catalase-negative, anaerobic, gram-positive cocci. It is known to mostly cause endocarditis, meningitis, peritonitis, and cerebral abscesses. However, it is extremely rare for this organism to cause infections of an orthopedic nature, with only a single report of infection in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We present a rare case of knee arthroplasty infection caused by G. haemolysans four years after an uncomplicated TKA procedure. Cureus 2021-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8429040/ /pubmed/34522551 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17073 Text en Copyright © 2021, Patell et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Patell, Kanchi
Al Armashi, Abdul Rahman
Somoza-Cano, Francisco J
Ravakhah, Keyvan
Han, Julia
A Rare Case of Gemella haemolysans Infection of Knee Arthroplasty
title A Rare Case of Gemella haemolysans Infection of Knee Arthroplasty
title_full A Rare Case of Gemella haemolysans Infection of Knee Arthroplasty
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Gemella haemolysans Infection of Knee Arthroplasty
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Gemella haemolysans Infection of Knee Arthroplasty
title_short A Rare Case of Gemella haemolysans Infection of Knee Arthroplasty
title_sort rare case of gemella haemolysans infection of knee arthroplasty
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8429040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34522551
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17073
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