Bacterial arthritis caused by Leptotrichia amnionii

Miki Goto; Shigemi Hitomi; Tomoo Ishii

doi:10.1128/JCM.02441-06

Bacterial arthritis caused by Leptotrichia amnionii

J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Jun;45(6):2082-3. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02441-06. Epub 2007 Mar 28.

Authors

Miki Goto¹, Shigemi Hitomi, Tomoo Ishii

Affiliation

¹ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tsukuba University Hospital, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8576, Japan.

Abstract

Leptotrichia amnionii is an organism that rarely causes female genital tract infection. We describe a case of a male patient with arthritis on the left knee joint due to this organism.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Arthritis, Infectious / microbiology*
Female
Fusobacteriaceae Infections / microbiology*
Humans
Knee Joint / microbiology
Leptotrichia / classification
Leptotrichia / genetics
Leptotrichia / isolation & purification*
Male
Middle Aged
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / microbiology
Synovial Fluid / microbiology