Published in:
01-02-2007 | Letter
Reactive Legionella pneumophila arthritis diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction
Authors:
Tateaki Naito, Takafumi Suda, Kumiko Saga, Toshinobu Horii, Kingo Chida
Published in:
Rheumatology International
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Issue 4/2007
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Excerpt
Legionellosis is a systemic infectious disease which involves primarily the lower respiratory tract with various extrapulmonary manifestations such as sinusitis, cellulitis, pancreatitis, peritonitis, and pyelonephritis [
1]. However, there is limited information about joint complication with
Legionella pneumophila. Recently, Andereya et al. [
2] described the reactive arthritis as an atypical extrapulmonary manifestation of
L. pneumophila infection in this journal. Several microbiologically proven septic arthritis with
L. pneumophila have also been reported [
3,
4]. We describe a case of Legionella arthritis (LA) diagnosed by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. …
